Neurology

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

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

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

4. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

5. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

6. Which of the following is not a feature of parkinsonism?

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

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

9. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

11. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

12. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

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

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

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

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

17. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

18. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

20. Amantadine does not produce:

21. Which of the following is a homologue of Hoffman’s sign of upper extremity?

22. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

24. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

25. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

26. In schizophrenia, a better prognosis is indicated by:

27. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

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

30. In health, intracranial calcification may be seen in all except:

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

32. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

33. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

34. Fine tremor is found in:

35. Café au lait spots are found in all except:

36. Titubation is classically seen in:

37. The root value of ‘Plantar response’ is:

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

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

40. Delayed relaxation of ankle jerk is seen in all except:

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

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

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

44. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

45. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

47. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

48. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

49. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

51. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

52. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

53. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

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

56. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

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

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

60. Which is not a recognized feature of cerebellar dysfunction?

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

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

63. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

64. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

65. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

67. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

69. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

70. Reversible ischaemic neurological deficit (RIND) usually recovers within:

71. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

72. Fear of relapse in cancer survivors is known as:

73. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

74. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

75. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

77. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

78. Posterior column lesion will have:

79. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

80. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

82. All of the following may produce syncope except:

83. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

84. All of the following produces ‘cord compression’ except:

85. ‘On-off phenomenon’ is precipitated by:

86. Patient with Down’s syndrome may be complicated by all except:

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

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

89. All of the following may develop into chorea except:

90. Which of the following is not a feature of UMN palsy?

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

92. Right middle cerebral artery territory infarction usually does not feature:

93. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

94. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

95. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

96. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

98. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

99. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

100. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

102. Flapping tremor is not found in:

103. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

104. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

105. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

106. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

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

109. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

110. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

112. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

114. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

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

117. Lithium is not used in:

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

119. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

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

122. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

123. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

124. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

125. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

126. The dermatome at the nipple is:

127. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

129. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

131. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

132. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

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

134. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

135. The most consistent early physical sign evoked in a cerebellopontine angle tumour is:

136. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

138. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

140. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

142. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

144. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

145. Migraine is not associated with:

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

147. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

149. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

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

151. Which of the following is not a test for cortical sensory function?

152. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

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

155. Sensory involvement is not found in:

156. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

157. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

158. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

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

160. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

161. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

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

163. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

164. Which group of muscles are almost never affected in polymyositis?

165. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

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

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

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

169. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

171. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

172. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

173. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

174. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

176. Which of the following does not produce pure motor paraplegia?

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

178. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

179. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

180. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

181. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

182. Heerfordt’s syndrome is uveo-parotid fever with cranial nerve palsy, and is seen in:

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

184. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

185. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

186. A cataract is not characteristic of:

187. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

189. Carbamazepine is used in all of the following except:

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

191. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

192. All of the following produce meningism except:

193. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

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

196. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

198. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

200. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

201. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

202. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

204. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

206. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

207. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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

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

210. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

211. Xanthopsia is found in:

212. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

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

214. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

216. The reversible cause of dementia is:

217. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

219. Xenophobia is the fear of:

220. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

221. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by: