Neurology

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

2. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

3. Xanthopsia is found in:

4. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

6. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

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

8. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

9. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

10. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

11. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

12. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

13. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

15. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

16. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

17. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

18. Xenophobia is the fear of:

19. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

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

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

22. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

24. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

25. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

26. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

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

29. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

31. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

32. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

33. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

34. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

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

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

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

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

40. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

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

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

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

45. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

46. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

48. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

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

51. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

52. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

53. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

54. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

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

56. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

57. Posterior column lesion will have:

58. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

59. Neck rigidity is not found in:

60. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

61. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

62. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

64. Anterior horn cell disease is:

65. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

67. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

69. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

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

72. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

73. The dermatome at the nipple is:

74. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

75. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

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

77. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

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

79. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

80. Flapping tremor is not found in:

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

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

83. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

84. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

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

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

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

88. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

89. The reversible cause of dementia is:

90. All of the following may produce syncope except:

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

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

93. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

94. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

95. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

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

98. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

99. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

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

102. Miosis is found in all except:

103. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

104. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

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

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

108. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

109. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

111. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

112. Lithium is not used in:

113. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

114. Astasia·abasia is known as:

115. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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

117. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

118. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

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

121. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

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

124. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

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

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

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

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

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

131. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

132. Fine tremor is found in:

133. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

134. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

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

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

137. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

138. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

140. Which is not a PRION disease?

141. All of the following produce meningism except:

142. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

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

145. Ptosis is absent in:

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

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

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

149. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

150. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

151. A cataract is not characteristic of:

152. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

153. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

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

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

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

158. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

159. Migraine is not associated with:

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

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

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

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

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

165. Sensory involvement is not found in:

166. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

167. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

168. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

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

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

172. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

174. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

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

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

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

178. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

179. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

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

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

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

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

185. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

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

188. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

189. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

190. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

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

192. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

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

195. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

196. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

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

199. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

201. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

202. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

203. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

204. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

205. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

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

208. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

210. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

212. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

213. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

221. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except: