Neurology

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

2. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

3. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

4. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

5. The reversible cause of dementia is:

6. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

7. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

8. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

10. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

11. Lithium is not used in:

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

13. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

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

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

16. All of the following may produce syncope except:

17. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

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

20. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

22. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

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

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

26. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

28. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

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

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

32. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

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

34. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

35. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

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

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

38. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

39. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

41. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

43. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

44. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

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

47. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

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

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

51. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

52. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

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

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

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

56. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

58. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

60. Posterior column lesion will have:

61. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

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

63. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

64. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

66. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

68. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

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

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

71. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

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

74. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

75. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

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

77. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

78. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

80. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

81. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

82. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

83. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

84. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

85. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

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

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

88. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

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

90. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

91. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

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

93. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

94. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

95. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

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

98. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

99. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

100. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

102. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

103. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

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

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

107. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

109. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

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

111. Flapping tremor is not found in:

112. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

114. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

116. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

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

119. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

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

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

123. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

124. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

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

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

128. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

129. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

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

132. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

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

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

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

137. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

138. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

140. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

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

143. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

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

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

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

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

149. Neck rigidity is not found in:

150. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

152. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

154. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

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

156. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

157. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

158. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

159. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

160. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

161. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

162. ‘Hippus’ is:

163. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

164. Amantadine does not produce:

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

166. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

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

168. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

170. Xanthopsia is found in:

171. Astasia·abasia is known as:

172. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

175. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

177. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

178. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

179. A cataract is not characteristic of:

180. Fine tremor is found in:

181. Which is not a PRION disease?

182. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

183. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

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

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

187. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

188. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

189. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

190. Migraine is not associated with:

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

192. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

193. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

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

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

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

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

199. Titubation is classically seen in:

200. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

202. Ptosis is absent in:

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

204. Sensory involvement is not found in:

205. All of the following produce meningism except:

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

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

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

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

210. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

211. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

212. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

213. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

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

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

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

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

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

219. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

220. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

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