Neurology

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

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

3. Sensory involvement is not found in:

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

5. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

6. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

7. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

8. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

9. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

11. A cataract is not characteristic of:

12. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

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

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

16. All of the following may produce syncope except:

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

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

19. Neck rigidity is not found in:

20. Argyll Robertson pupil is found in all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

27. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

28. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

29. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

30. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

31. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

32. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

34. Romberg’s sign is present in:

35. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

36. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

37. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

38. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

39. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

40. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

41. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

42. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

43. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

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

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

46. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

48. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

50. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

52. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

53. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

55. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

56. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

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

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

59. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

60. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

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

63. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

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

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

66. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

67. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

70. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

71. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

72. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

73. Flapping tremor is not found in:

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

75. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

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

78. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

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

81. ‘Hippus’ is:

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

83. All of the following produce meningism except:

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

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

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

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

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

89. Miosis is found in all except:

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

91. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

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

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

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

96. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

97. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

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

99. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

100. The dermatome at the nipple is:

101. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

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

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

105. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

106. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

107. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

108. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

109. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

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

112. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

113. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

114. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

116. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

118. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

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

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

121. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

122. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

123. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

124. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

125. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

126. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

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

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

129. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

131. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

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

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

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

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

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

138. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

139. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

141. Amantadine does not produce:

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

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

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

145. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

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

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

149. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

151. Astasia·abasia is known as:

152. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

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

155. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

157. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

158. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

159. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

160. Posterior column lesion will have:

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

162. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

164. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

166. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

167. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

168. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

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

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

171. Ptosis is absent in:

172. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

173. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

174. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

175. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

176. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

177. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

178. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

179. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

180. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

181. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

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

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

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

185. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

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

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

188. Lithium is not used in:

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

190. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

191. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

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

194. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

195. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

196. Fine tremor is found in:

197. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

198. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

199. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

200. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

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

202. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

203. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

204. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

205. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

206. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

207. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

208. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

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

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

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

213. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

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

215. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

216. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

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

218. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

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

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

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