Neurology

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

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

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

4. Regarding acute transverse myelitis, which is false?

5. Tropical spastic paraplegia is caused by:

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

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

8. The most common psychological disorder in myxoedema is:

9. Froin’s loculation syndrome does not have:

10. Lhermitte’s sign is not found in:

11. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from damage of:

12. Migraine is not associated with:

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

14. Spastic paraplegia is not produced by:

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

16. Acoustic neuroma most likely leads to paralysis of:

17. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome encompasses all except:

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

19. Tabes dorsalis presents with all except:

20. Hypertonia is a feature of all except:

21. Tensilon test improves the muscle weakness in:

22. Flapping tremor is not found in:

23. Oppenheim’s gait is characteristic of:

24. Characteristic of LMN lesion is:

25. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia results from:

26. Meralgia paraesthetica is characterised by all except:

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

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

29. The commonest cause of subarachnoid haemorrhage is:

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

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

32. Commonest cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is:

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

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

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

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

37. The commonest intracranial tumour is:

38. Maligant hyperthermia may be produced by all except:

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

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

41. Therapeutic range of phenytoin is:

42. Abdominal reflex is usually retained in:

43. Neurological features of thyrotoxicosis do not include:

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

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

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

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

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

49. Bromocriptine is not useful in the treatment of:

50. Lesion in athetosis lies in:

51. Complication of phenytoin does not include?

52. The commonest cause of aphasia is:

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

54. Romberg’s sign is present in:

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

56. Astasia·abasia is known as:

57. Pendular nystagmus is found in:

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

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

60. Apneustic breathing is seen in lesion of:

61. Horner’s syndrome manifests as:

62. Palatal myoclonus is seen in:

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

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

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

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

67. Fine tremor is found in:

68. The earliest skin lesion in tuberous sclerosis is:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

76. Which one is not a primitive reflex?

77. Abdominal reflex is lost early in:

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

79. Atrophy in Duchenne myopathy is classically seen in:

80. Which drug is not used in parkinsonism?

81. Unilateral ptosis is characteristic of all except:

82. All are recognised side effects of lithium except:

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

84. Dermatoglyphics with obtuse ATD angle is characteristic of:

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

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

87. Slow virus CNS infections are all except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

96. Commonest visual difficulty in multiple sclerosis:

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

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

99. Sensory involvement is not found in:

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

101. Glasgow Coma Scale assesses all except:

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

103. The best drug for photosensitive epilepsy is:

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

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

106. Ptosis is absent in:

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

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

109. Muscle sense is increased in all except:

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

111. Which is not parkinsonian plus syndrome?

112. Xanthochromia is not a feature of:

113. Increased jaw jerk is seen in:

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

115. Congenital abnormality produced by lithium therapy is:

116. Chorea may develop from the consumption of:

117. Regarding dermatomyositis, which one is false?

118. All of the following produce meningism except:

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

120. Berry aneurysm may be associated with all except:

121. The commonest presentation of neurocysticercosis is:

122. A cataract is not characteristic of:

123. Ptosis with a dilated pupil is observed in:

124. Which is false regarding peripheral vertigo?

125. Hypersomnolence is found in all except:

126. 3-Hz spike-and-wave discharge in EEG during the seizure is diagnostic of:

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

128. Which of the following produces wrist drop?

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

130. All of the following produce cerebellar degeneration except:

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

132. Dilator pupillae is supplied by:

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

134. Characteristics of “rigidity’ are all except:

135. Chronic fatigue syndrome is fundamentally a:

136. Pyramidal signs may be associated with:

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

138. Pseudobulbar palsy is not associated with:

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

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

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

142. Ataxia-telangiectasia is not associated with:

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

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

145. All of the following may produce papilloedema except:

146. Lymphocytic pleocytosis in CSF is not found in:

147. Carotid artery stenosis gives rise to:

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

149. Proximal muscle weakness is not produced by:

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

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

152. All are features of pontine haemorrhage except:

153. The commonest cause of unilateral foot drop is:

154. Neck rigidity is not found in:

155. Which of the following is false regarding migraine?

156. Miosis is found in all except:

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

158. Babinski’s sign is not found in:

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

160. Down-beating nystagmus is seen in:

161. Disorder of language of cerebral origin is:

162. Which of the following is false in polymyositis?

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

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

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

166. Main d’ accoucheur is seen in:

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

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

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

170. Anterior horn cell disease is:

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

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

173. Sarcoidosis commonly involves the cranial nerve:

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

175. The reversible cause of dementia is:

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

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

178. Lasegue’s sign is present in:

179. Which organism commonly produces meningitis in an adolescent?

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

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

182. All of the following are antiepileptic drugs except:

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

184. Which of the following remains normal in leprosy?

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

186. The commonest type of neurofibroma is associated with:

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

188. The oculogyric crisis is found in all except:

189. Hiccough occurs in all of the following except:

190. Which of the following does not produce fasciculation?

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

192. Prophylaxis of migraine may be done by:

193. Which of the following does not produce phakomatosis?

194. Phenytoin toxicity may result in all except:

195. Vibration sensation is lost early in:

196. The commonest cause of anisocoria is:

197. Nimodipine used in subarachnoid haemorrhage:

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

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

200. Monoplegia is due to lesions in:

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

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

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

204. Pseudobulbar palsy will have all except:

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

206. Myxoedema coma is not associated with:

207. Intermittent bulbar palsy is seen in:

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

209. Uncinate fits are characteristically seen in tumours of:

210. Amantadine does not produce:

211. Posterior column lesion will have:

212. Lithium is not used in:

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

214. Muscle pain is not characteristic of:

215. Which is abnormal regarding normal CSF findings?

216. Xanthopsia is found in:

217. Which is not a PRION disease?

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

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

220. Alcohol withdrawal is not associated with:

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