Neurology

1. Waddling gait is seen in alt except:

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

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

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

5. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

6. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

7. Neurological feature of myxoedema may be:

8. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

10. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

11. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

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

14. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

15. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

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

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

18. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

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

21. Brain biopsy in rabies demonstrates?

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

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

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

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

26. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

28. Ptosis is absent in:

29. Optic neuritis may be produced by all except:

30. Jaw claudication is not characteristic of:

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

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

33. Posterior column lesion will have:

34. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

35. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

36. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

37. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

38. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

39. Cerebral infarction can be detected earliest by:

40. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

41. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

42. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

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

44. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

45. alpha-bungarotoxin is associated with neuroparalysis in:

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

47. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

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

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

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

51. CNS involvement of SLE includes all except:

52. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

53. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

54. Xenophobia is the fear of:

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

56. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

57. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

59. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

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

61. Which is a cause of reversible dementia?

62. The common sites of meningioma are alt except:

63. Which is not a PRION disease?

64. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

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

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

68. Titubation is classically seen in:

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

70. Brain tumour disseminating through CSF is:

71. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

72. Myopathy is best diagnosed by:

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

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

75. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

76. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

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

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

79. Neck rigidity is not found in:

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

81. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia is commonly due to:

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

83. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

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

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

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

88. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

89. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

90. Atypical feature of Guillain-Barre syndrome is:

91. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

92. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

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

95. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

96. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

98. All of the following produce meningism except:

99. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

101. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

102. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

103. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

104. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

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

106. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

108. Dementia pugilistica develops as a result of:

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

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

111. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

112. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

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

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

115. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

117. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

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

119. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

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

121. The dermatome at the nipple is:

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

123. Astasia·abasia is known as:

124. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

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

126. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

127. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

128. Corneal reflex tests the integrity of:

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

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

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

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

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

134. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

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

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

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

138. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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

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

141. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

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

143. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

144. Inversion of supinator jerk indicates the lesion at:

145. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

147. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

148. Migraine is not associated with:

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

150. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

151. Anterior horn cell disease is:

152. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

153. Sensory involvement is not found in:

154. All of the following may produce syncope except:

155. ‘Hippus’ is:

156. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

157. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

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

160. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

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

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

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

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

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

166. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

167. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

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

169. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

170. The commonest cause of abducent nerve palsy is:

171. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

172. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

173. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

174. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

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

176. The commonest intracranial tumour in children is:

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

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

179. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

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

181. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

182. Multiple sclerosis is not associated with:

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

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

185. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

186. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

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

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

190. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

192. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

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

194. Narcolepsy is not associated with:

195. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

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

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

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

199. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

200. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

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

202. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

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

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

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

206. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

207. Amantadine does not produce:

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

209. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

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

212. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

213. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

214. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

215. Miosis is found in all except:

216. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

217. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

219. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

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

221. The reversible cause of dementia is: