Neurology

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

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

3. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

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

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

6. Todd’s palsy is characteristic of:

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

8. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

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

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

11. Lithium is not used in:

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

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

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

15. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

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

18. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

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

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

22. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

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

24. Sensory involvement is not found in:

25. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

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

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

29. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

30. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

31. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

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

33. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

34. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

35. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

36. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

37. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

38. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

39. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

40. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

41. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

43. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

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

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

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

48. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

50. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

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

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

53. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

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

55. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

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

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

59. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

60. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

61. Miosis is found in all except:

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

63. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

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

65. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

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

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

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

69. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

70. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

71. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

72. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

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

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

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

76. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

77. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

78. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

86. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

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

88. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

89. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

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

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

93. Flapping tremor is not found in:

94. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

95. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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

97. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

98. Astasia·abasia is known as:

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

100. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

101. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

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

103. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

104. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

105. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

106. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

107. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

109. Amantadine does not produce:

110. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

111. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

112. The reversible cause of dementia is:

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

114. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

115. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

116. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

117. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

119. All of the following produce meningism except:

120. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

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

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

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

124. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

125. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

126. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

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

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

130. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

132. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

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

134. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

135. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

136. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

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

139. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

140. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

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

143. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

144. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

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

146. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

147. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

149. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

150. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

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

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

153. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

154. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

155. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

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

157. A cataract is not characteristic of:

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

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

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

161. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

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

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

164. All of the following may produce syncope except:

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

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

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

168. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

170. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

171. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

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

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

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

176. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

177. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

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

179. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

180. Peripheral neuropathy associated with hypertension is found in:

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

182. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

183. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

185. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

193. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

194. Ptosis is absent in:

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

196. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

197. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

199. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

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

201. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

202. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

203. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

204. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

206. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

207. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

208. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

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

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

212. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

213. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

214. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

215. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

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

217. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

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

220. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

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