Neurology

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

2. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

3. Lithium is not used in:

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

5. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

6. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

7. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

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

10. Ptosis is absent in:

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

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

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

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

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

16. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

18. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

19. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

20. Flapping tremor is not found in:

21. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

22. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

23. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

25. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

26. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

27. Astasia·abasia is known as:

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

29. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

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

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

32. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

33. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

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

35. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

37. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

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

40. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

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

42. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

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

45. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

46. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

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

49. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

50. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

51. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

52. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

53. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

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

56. The dermatome at the nipple is:

57. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

58. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

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

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

62. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

63. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

64. Fine tremor is found in:

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

66. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

67. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

68. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

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

70. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

71. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

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

73. Xenophobia is the fear of:

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

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

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

77. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

78. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

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

81. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

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

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

84. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

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

86. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

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

89. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

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

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

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

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

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

95. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

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

98. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

100. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

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

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

103. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

105. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

106. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

107. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

109. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

110. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

112. All of the following may produce syncope except:

113. Amantadine does not produce:

114. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

116. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

119. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

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

121. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

122. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

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

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

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

127. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

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

130. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

131. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

132. Migraine is not associated with:

133. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

134. Neck rigidity is not found in:

135. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

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

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

138. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

139. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

141. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

142. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

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

144. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

145. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

146. Sensory involvement is not found in:

147. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

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

150. All of the following produce meningism except:

151. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

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

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

154. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

155. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

156. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

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

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

159. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

160. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

161. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

162. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

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

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

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

167. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

168. Miosis is found in all except:

169. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

170. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

171. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

172. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

174. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

176. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

177. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

178. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

180. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

181. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

182. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

183. The reversible cause of dementia is:

184. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

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

187. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

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

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

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

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

192. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

193. Anterior horn cell disease is:

194. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

196. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

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

198. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

199. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

201. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

202. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

203. Xanthopsia is found in:

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

205. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

206. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

207. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

208. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

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

210. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

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

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

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

215. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

217. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

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

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

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

221. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is: