Neurology

1. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

2. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

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

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

6. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

8. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

10. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

11. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

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

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

15. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

16. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

17. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

18. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

19. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

20. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

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

23. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

24. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

25. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

27. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

28. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

30. Amantadine does not produce:

31. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

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

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

35. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

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

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

39. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

40. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

41. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

42. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

43. Ptosis associated with diplopia and diminished movement of eyeball is due to:

44. Lithium is not used in:

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

46. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

48. All of the following may produce syncope except:

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

50. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

51. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

52. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

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

55. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

56. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

57. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

58. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

59. Migraine is not associated with:

60. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

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

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

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

65. ‘Hippus’ is:

66. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

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

69. All of the following produce meningism except:

70. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

71. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

73. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

74. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

75. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

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

77. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

78. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

79. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

80. A cataract is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

85. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

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

88. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

89. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

90. Which is not a PRION disease?

91. Titubation is classically seen in:

92. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

93. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

95. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

96. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

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

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

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

101. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

102. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

104. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

105. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

106. Which of the following is not a part of Miller-Fisher syndrome?

107. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

108. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

109. All are seen in Alzheimer’s disease except:

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

111. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

112. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

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

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

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

116. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

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

119. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

120. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

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

122. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

123. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

124. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

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

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

127. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

129. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

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

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

132. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

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

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

136. The reversible cause of dementia is:

137. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

138. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

139. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

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

142. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

143. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

144. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

145. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

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

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

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

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

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

151. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

160. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

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

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

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

165. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

167. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

168. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

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

171. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

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

174. Flapping tremor is not found in:

175. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

176. Astasia·abasia is known as:

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

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

179. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

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

181. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

182. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

183. Sensory involvement is not found in:

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

185. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

186. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

187. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

188. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

189. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

190. Xenophobia is the fear of:

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

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

193. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

194. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

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

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

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

198. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

199. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

200. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

201. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

202. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

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

204. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

205. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

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

207. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

209. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

210. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

211. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

212. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

213. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

214. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

215. Xanthopsia is found in:

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

217. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

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

220. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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