Neurology

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

2. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

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

5. Lithium is not used in:

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

7. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

9. Sensory involvement is not found in:

10. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

11. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

13. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

14. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

16. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

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

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

20. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

21. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

22. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

23. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

25. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

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

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

28. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

30. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

32. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

33. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

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

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

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

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

38. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

39. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

40. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

41. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

42. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

43. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

45. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

46. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

48. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

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

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

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

52. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

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

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

56. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

58. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

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

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

62. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

63. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

64. Ptosis is absent in:

65. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

66. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

67. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

69. Xanthopsia is found in:

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

71. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

72. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

73. Migraine is not associated with:

74. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

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

77. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

78. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

79. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

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

82. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

83. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

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

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

87. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

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

90. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

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

92. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

93. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

95. Xenophobia is the fear of:

96. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

97. Romberg’s sign is present in:

98. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

99. All of the following produce meningism except:

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

101. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

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

104. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

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

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

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

109. Neck rigidity is not found in:

110. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

111. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

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

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

114. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

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

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

117. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

118. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

119. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

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

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

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

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

125. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

126. Flapping tremor is not found in:

127. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

128. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

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

131. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

132. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

133. Amantadine does not produce:

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

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

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

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

138. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

139. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

140. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

142. The dermatome at the nipple is:

143. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

145. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

146. Astasia·abasia is known as:

147. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

148. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

150. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

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

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

153. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

154. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

155. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

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

158. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

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

160. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

161. A cataract is not characteristic of:

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

163. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

164. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

165. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

166. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

168. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

169. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

170. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

171. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

172. All of the following may produce syncope except:

173. Fine tremor is found in:

174. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

175. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

177. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

178. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

179. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

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

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

182. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

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

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

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

187. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

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

190. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

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

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

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

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

195. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

196. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

197. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

198. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

199. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

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

201. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

202. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

203. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

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

206. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

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

208. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

209. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

210. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

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

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

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

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

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

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

217. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

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

219. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

220. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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