The examples below are of items useful to use in your practice. In addition, patients with depression may commonly not score near the 29 or 30 out of 30 expected in the non-demented. Consequently it is neither sensitive nor specific. This takes 15-30 minutes and involves 40 items. The typical items which are useful for students to apply are included below.
Orientation is a global cerebral function.
Evaluation of speech for aphasia Examine fluency of speech, spontaneity of speech and word finding ability. Disturbances of speech may reflect pathology all the way through from Wernicke's area in the superior posterior temporal cortex through to Broca's area in the posterior-lateral frontal cortex. Fibers along the way may be impaired. When there are visual inputs, then there may be occipital components to this. Specific localizations have been hypothesized for localization objects, body parts, and colors.