MD / DNB General Medicine Neurology Common Viva Questions

Dr. Sanoop Kumar Sherin Sabu , M.D., General Medicine from Government Superspeciality Medical College Salem..

These are common Viva Questions asked in MD general medicine and DNB General Medicine Neurology cases

1. Pupillary abnormalities
2. Lmn and umn bladder
3. DDx for bilateral ptosis
4. Physiological and pathological fasciculation – difference
5. Management, DD of MND
6. Difference between umn and lmn , spasticity and rigidity
7. DD for lhermitte sign
8. DD for small muscles wasting
9. Signs of cvj anomaly
10. Medial lemniscus
11. Dominant hemispheres
12. Hand dominance importance
13. Dajavu jamais vu
14. Hemispheres function
15. Definition and types of agnosia and apraxia
16. Cerebellum functions
17. Fundus changes in ataxia
18. Hypothyroidism And ataxia
19. Why hypotonia and hyperreflexia in cerebellar ataxia ?
20. Hypothyroidism and menstrual abnormalities
21. Prognosis of ataxia
22. Types of ataxias
23. Difference Autosomal dominance and recessive
24. Hereditary importance
25. Parts of cerebellum and clinical importance
26. Chadok sign importance
27. Other types of Babinski
28. CADASIL
29. Pseudo myotonic reflex- importance
30. Pinpoint pupil causes
31. Seizure, epilepsy definition
32. Headache types
33. Basilar migraine
34. Dejavu phenomenon
35. Todd’s paresis
36. Sleep stages
37. Parietal lobe function
38. Tone examination
39. Plantar examination
40. Brown sequard syndrome
41. Types of Motor neuron disease
42. Lhermitte sign and causes
43. Root value for DTR
44. Root value for Plantar reflex
45. UMN vs LMN bladder
46. Power examination
47. UMN vs LMN difference
48. Definition of Seizure, epilepsy, convulsion
49. What is Jacksonian March
50. Differential diagnosis
51. types of pain
52. pain fibres
53. weakness localisation
54. autonomic hyperreflexia
55. location of autonomic fibres in cord
56. bladder umn vs lmn
57. HIV and cns
58. cranial nerve involvement and cord
59. mydriatic pupil causes
60. tone elicitation,eom elicitation
61. hand muscle movement -demonstration
62. reflex demonstration
63. cold abscess
64. nerve thickening causes.
65. Band like sensation – localizes for?
66. What do you mean by ill defined glove and stocking pattern and it’s localization?
67. Signs of posterior column dysfunction
68. Sexually transmitted diseases that can cause ataxia
69. Pseudo tabes
70. Examination of cerebellar function tests
71. Clonus and plantar equivalents examination
72. Gait demonstration – hemiplegic gait and it’s reasoning
73. Equine gait?
74. Differentiating between L5 radiculopathy and peroneal nerve palsy
75. Frozen shoulder
76. Demonstrate testing small muscles of hand
77. Demonstrate DTR in patient beside
78. DEMONSTRATE JAW jerk
79. What is inference of jaw jerk positivity
80. Management of stroke if patient present with in 3 hours
81. Corda equina vs conus medularis
82. Different blader diseases
83. Clinical fetaures of umn bladder
84. What does triping of toe mean
85. Causes of foot drop
86. Causes of thickened nerve
87. Causes of papilledema
88. Define motor neuron
89. Define giant motor neuron
90. Dysphasia
91. Aphasia
92. Dysarthria vs Dysphasia
93. Define fasciculations
94. causes of b/l LMN palsy
95. Bulbar palsy
96. pseudobulbar palsy
97. causes of fasciculations
98. Causes of bilateral ptosis
99. Parietal lobe functions
100. Hand Intrinsic muscle testing
101. Young stroke causes
102. TIA recent scoring system
103. Split hand sign
104. Reverse Lhermitte
105. Sympathetic tract
106. Optic nerve
107. Light reflex
108. Corneal/conjunc root value nd nucleus
109. Tone definition
110. Demonstration of reflexes
111. Demonstration of Power of 2/5
112. Demonstration of Tone
113. Plantar
114. Clonus- definition / mechanism
115. Extramedullary Vs Intramedullary lesions
116. Extradural Vs intradural diff .
117. Comprehensive geriatric care and neurology
118. Acute stroke management protocol
119. Scoring systems for ischemic stroke
120. Difference of central and spinal paraparesis
121. Tracts facilitating and inhibiting antigravity muscles
122. Draw pyramidal and posterior column
123. Most common type of ataxia
124. Difference between cerebellar, sensory and vestibular ataxia
125. Wash basin sign
126. Neurocutaneous markers in ataxia
127. Demonstrate cerebellar signs
128. Pseudomyotonic reflex, how to elicit, upper limb equivalent of it, causes
129. How to differentiate involvement of cerebellum vs spinocerebellar tract
130. Reversible causes of ataxia
131. Most common type of ataxia-in india, worldwide
132. Define Ataxia
133. Diff B/W Sensory Vs Cerebellar Ataxia
134. Clinical Features of Sensory Ataxia
135. Head and Ophthal Signs of Cerebellar ataxia
136. Spinocerebellar Ataxia
     1. Clinical features
     2. How many types
     3. MC type in World
     4. MC Type in India
     5. Features of type 3
137. Cerebellum Input, Out Put
138. Brainstem and Cerebellum Connection
139. Fundus Finding In Spinocerebellar Ataxia
140. Bladder features in cerebellum involvement
141. Reversible cause of cerebellar Ataxia
142. Acute Causes of ataxia
143. Aphasia
144. Dysarthria vs Dysphasia
145. Define fasciculations
146. causes of b/l LMN palsy
147. Bulbar palsy
148. pseudobulbar palsy
149. causes of fasciculations
150. Madras MND
151. JAW jerk demonstration and inference
152. DTR demonstration
153. Tone
154. Extra and intramedullary difference
155. Ankle clonus
156. Other methods of Babinski
157. Dissociated sensory loss
158. Flexors muscle of lower limb
159. UMN and LMN bladder
160. T6 and T8 localisation
161. Bevor’s sign

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