Neurology

1. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

2. A cataract is not characteristic of:

3. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

5. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

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

7. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

9. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

10. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

12. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

13. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

14. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

16. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

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

19. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

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

22. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

24. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

25. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

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

27. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

28. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

29. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

30. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

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

33. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

34. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

35. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

36. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

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

38. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

40. Xenophobia is the fear of:

41. Xanthopsia is found in:

42. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

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

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

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

47. Amantadine does not produce:

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

49. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

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

52. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

54. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

55. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

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

58. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

59. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

60. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

62. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

64. Miosis is found in all except:

65. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

66. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

68. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

70. The reversible cause of dementia is:

71. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

72. Migraine is not associated with:

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

74. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

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

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

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

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

80. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

81. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

83. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

85. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

87. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

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

90. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

91. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

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

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

94. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

96. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

97. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

98. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

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

100. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

101. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

103. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

104. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

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

107. The dermatome at the nipple is:

108. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

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

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

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

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

113. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

115. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

116. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

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

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

119. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

120. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

121. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

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

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

124. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

125. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

126. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

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

129. Which is not a PRION disease?

130. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

131. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

133. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

135. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

136. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

137. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

138. Sensory involvement is not found in:

139. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

140. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

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

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

144. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

146. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

148. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

149. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

151. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

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

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

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

156. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

158. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

160. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

161. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

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

164. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

166. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

167. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

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

170. Flapping tremor is not found in:

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

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

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

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

175. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

176. All of the following produce meningism except:

177. Neck rigidity is not found in:

178. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

180. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

181. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

183. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

184. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

185. Posterior column lesion will have:

186. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

188. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

189. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

190. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

191. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

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

193. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

194. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

195. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

196. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

197. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

199. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

201. Astasia·abasia is known as:

202. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

203. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

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

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

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

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

208. Romberg’s sign is present in:

209. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

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

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

213. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

215. Lithium is not used in:

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

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

218. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

220. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

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