Neurology

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

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

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

4. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

5. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

6. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

7. Xanthopsia is found in:

8. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

9. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

10. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

11. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

12. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

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

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

16. All of the following may produce syncope except:

17. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

18. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

19. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

21. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

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

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

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

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

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

27. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

28. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

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

31. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

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

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

44. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

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

46. Amantadine does not produce:

47. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

49. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

50. Anterior horn cell disease is:

51. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

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

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

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

56. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

57. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

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

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

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

61. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

62. Lithium is not used in:

63. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

64. Xenophobia is the fear of:

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

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

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

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

69. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

70. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

72. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

73. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

74. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

75. A cataract is not characteristic of:

76. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

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

79. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

80. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

81. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

82. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

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

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

86. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

87. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

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

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

91. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

93. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

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

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

96. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

98. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

99. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

100. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

101. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

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

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

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

105. Posterior column lesion will have:

106. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

107. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

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

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

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

112. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

113. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

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

116. Titubation is classically seen in:

117. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

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

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

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

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

122. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

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

125. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

126. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

127. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

128. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

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

131. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

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

133. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

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

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

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

137. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

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

140. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

141. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

142. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

143. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

145. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

147. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

149. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

150. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

151. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

152. Romberg’s sign is present in:

153. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

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

155. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

156. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

158. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

160. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

161. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

162. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

163. Miosis is found in all except:

164. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

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

166. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

167. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

168. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

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

170. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

171. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

173. Migraine is not associated with:

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

175. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

176. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

177. Ptosis is absent in:

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

179. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

181. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

182. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

184. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

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

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

187. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

188. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

189. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

190. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

192. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

193. Sensory involvement is not found in:

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

195. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

197. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

198. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

199. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

200. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

207. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

208. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

210. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

211. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

212. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

213. All of the following produce meningism except:

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

215. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

216. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

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

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

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

221. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except: