Neurology

1. Bromocriptine is used in all of the following except:

2. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) are all except:

3. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

4. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

5. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

6. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

7. Oculomotor nerve palsy with a spared pupil is classically seen in:

8. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

9. EEG findings showing slow waves, spikes and ‘burst suppression’ are characteristic of:

10. Cause of bilateral facial nerve palsy does not include:

11. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

12. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

13. All of the following are recognised lithium toxicity except:

14. Neurofibromatosis leads to an increased risk of having all of the following except:

15. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

16. Which of the following does not produce wasting of small muscles of hands?

17. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

18. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

19. The drug most beneficial in enuresis of a 10-year-old boy is:

20. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

21. Cherry red spot in fundoscopy is characteristic of all except:

22. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

23. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

24. Which of the following is false in subacute combined degeneration?

25. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

26. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

27. All of the following produce mono neuritis multiplex except:

28. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

29. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

30. Which of the following is false regarding etiology of benign intracranial hypertension?

31. The lobe of the brain primarily affected in herpes simplex encephalitis is:

32. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome has all the following features except:

33. Which is not included under ‘craniovertebral anomaly’?

34. Miosis is found in all except:

35. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

36. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

37. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

38. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

39. Which of the following is not included in the triad of tuberous sclerosis?

40. Flapping tremor is not found in:

41. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

42. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

43. The most common site of hypertensive intracranial bleeding is:

44. Korsakoff’s psychosis does not have the feature like:

45. Drug-induced myopathy may result from all except:

46. Which of the following occurs earliest in diphtheritic neuropathy?

47. Crossed hemiplegia indicates that the site of lesion is in:

48. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

49. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

50. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

51. The presence of Babinski’s sign with loss of ankle jerk is found in all except:

52. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

53. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

54. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

55. Which of the following is not a feature of syringobulbia?

56. A cataract is not characteristic of:

57. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

58. The dermatome at the nipple is:

59. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

60. ‘Organic brain syndrome’ may be produced by:

61. Amantadine does not produce:

62. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

63. Which does not produce hypoglycorrhachia (low CSF sugar)?

64. A patient with a history of diplopia, dysarthria, dizziness and ataxia suddenly becomes unconscious. The most probable diagnosis is:

65. Which of the following is not a human ‘Prion’ disease?

66. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

67. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

68. Romberg’s sign is present in:

69. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

70. Albumino-cytological dissociation is not a feature of:

71. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

72. In lathyrism.. the toxin responsible for the development of neuroparalysis is:

73. ‘Railroad track’ calcification in X-ray skull is found in:

74. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

75. In the setting of puerperium, which of the following is most common in producing neuro deficit?

76. True hypertrophy of muscles is found in all except:

77. ‘India ink preparation’ in CSF helps in the diagnosis of:

78. The use of which can lead to the development of paranoid psychosis?

79. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

80. Regarding subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), all are true except:

81. Significant loss of vision in a hypertensive patient may be due to all except:

82. Ptosis is absent in:

83. Brushfield’s spots in iris are seen in:

84. All of the following are sources of cerebral embolism except:

85. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

86. Refsum’s disease is associated with all except:

87. ‘Paraplegia in flexion’ may have all of the following except:

88. Neck rigidity is not found in:

89. All of the following may produce syncope except:

90. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

91. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

92. Which of the following is not a feature of ‘stage of neural shock’ in hemiplegia?

93. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

94. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

95. The site of lesion in Korsakoff’s psychosis is:

96. All are ‘Calpain’ -associated. diseases except:

97. Which of the following is false in cluster headache?

98. Which is not a manifestation of normal pressure hydrocephalus?

99. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

100. All are the complications of oral contraceptive pills except:

101. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

102. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

103. All of the following may develop into endocrine myopathy except:

104. Xanthopsia is found in:

105. Which is not a PRION disease?

106. CSF is absorbed by arachnoid villi which are mainly present in:

107. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

108. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

109. “Locked-in syndrome’ occurs in lesions of:

110. Thrombosis of left middle cerebral artery may give rise to:

111. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

112. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

113. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

114. Among the following, which is the most common adult muscular dystrophy?

115. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

116. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

117. All of the following may cause peripheral neuropathy except:

118. Cerebral oedema induced by CVA should not be treated by:

119. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

120. The presence of acanthocytosis of RBC, retinitis pigmentosa and ataxia is suggestive of:

121. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

122. The drug of choice in obsessive-compulsive psychosis is:

123. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

124. Which of the following does not fit in ‘Ramsay Hunt’ syndrome?

125. Which is not a symptom of raised intracranial tension?

126. Posterior column lesion will have:

127. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

128. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

129. Collet-Siccard syndrome affects the following cranial nerves:

130. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

131. All are true regarding Alzheimer’s disease except:

132. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

133. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

134. In trochlear nerve palsy, the patient complains of diplopia while:

135. Migraine is not associated with:

136. “‘Bull’s eye maculopathy’ is characteristic toxicity of:

137. The most common lacunar syndrome in clinical practice is:

138. Which of the following is not an antiplatelet drug?

139. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

140. Trismus is seen in all of the following except:

141. Which of the following does not produce thickened peripheral nerves?

142. Titubation is classically seen in:

143. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

144. Which of the following is not associated with pes cavus?

145. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

146. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

147. Anterior horn cell disease is:

148. Which of the following is not included within ‘motor functions’?

149. Which of the following is false regarding Eaton-Lambert syndrome?

150. Horner’s syndrome includes all of the following except:

151. Charcot (neuropathic) joint is a recognised complication of all except:

152. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

153. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

154. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

155. Xenophobia is the fear of:

156. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

157. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

158. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

159. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

160. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

161. Weber’s syndrome is crossed hemiplegia with the involvement of:

162. Which is not characteristic of the lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg’s syndrome)?

163. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

164. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

165. Eaton-Lambert syndrome is characterized by all of the following except:

166. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

167. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

168. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

169. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

170. Astasia·abasia is known as:

171. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

172. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

173. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

174. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

175. Perforating ulcer in the sole of foot is found in all except:

176. Which of the following is false in Gerstmann’s syndrome?

177. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

178. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

179. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

180. All of the following produce meningism except:

181. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

182. In monoplegia, usually, the site of lesion lies in:

183. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

184. Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) stamps the process as:

185. In cerebral malaria, which of the following should not be given?

186. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

187. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

188. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

189. Fine tremor is found in:

190. Chromosomal anomaly associated with Alzheimer’s disease is:

191. Management of choice in Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

192. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

193. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

194. Limb-girdle type myopathy inherits the disease as:

195. Which of the following does not produce wasting of small muscles of hands?

196. ‘Candle gutterings’ on the walls of the ventricles are seen in CT scan in:

197. Which is not true in Korsakoff’s syndrome?

198. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

199. Lithium is not used in:

200. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

201. Serum creatine kinase (CK) level is not raised in:

202. Myotonia dystrophica has all of the following morphological features except:

203. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

204. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

205. The commonest cause of convulsion in a child (2-12 yrs) is:

206. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

207. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

208. Which of the following does not produce pseudobulbar palsy?

209. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

210. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

211. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

212. Neck rigidity may be absent in the presence of:

213. Familial periodic paralysis may be seen in all except:

214. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

215. Ocular bobbing is often diagnostic of bilateral damage of:

216. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

217. Pronator sign, lizard tongue and hung-up deep reflex are found in:

218. Wrist drop is commonly seen in neuropathy induced by:

219. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

220. MRI is preferred over CT scan of brain in all except:

221. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?