9 TYPES

1. Cognitive examination
1. Orientation a. Time (day, date, month, season, year) b. Place
2. Attention a. Serial 7s, or b. Months of the year backwards
3. Language
a. Engage in conversation and assess fluency, articulation, phonemic and
semantic errors
b. Naming of somelow frequency items
c. Comprehension (both single word and sentence)
d. Reading
e. Write a sentence
4. Memory a. Anterograde: test recall of a name and address after 5 minutes b.
Retrograde: ask aboutrecent sporting or personalevents
5. Executive function a. Letter (F) and category fluency (animals)
6. Praxis a. Meaningful and meaningless gestures
b. Luria 3 step test (fist-edge-palm)
7. Visuospatial a. Clock drawing, and overlapping pentagons
8. General neurological assessment withparticular attentionto a. Frontal lobe
signs (utilisation, grasp, pout, palmomental) b. Presence of a movement disorder
c. Pyramidalsigns d. Eye movements
9. General impressiona. Slowness of thoughtb. Inappropriateness C Mood