The ability to effectively assess cognitive and other behavioral functions is an essential skill for neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, nurses, and other clinicians who perform clinic and bedside examinations. Unique in the field, The Mental Status Examination Handbook is a user-friendly, comprehensive resource that provides practical guidance on cognitive assessment, clarifies mental status testing procedures, and assists with decision making for neuropsychological referrals. This detailed manual draws from the full history of behavioral neurology testing, making the complex and challenging area of cognitive assessment accessible for both students and practitioners.- Offers guidance on how to choose and perform a large number of mental status tests, with information on selected test materials and normative values.
- Covers the bedside evaluation of arousal, attention, memory, language, perception, executive abilities, and other cognitive and behavioral areas.
- Provides an authoritative assessment and compendium of commonly used mental status scales, inventories and questionnaires.
- Describes relevant correlations with formal neuropsychological testing, neuroimaging, and neuropsychiatric disease.
- Explains how to weigh, use, and understand mental status scales and neuropsychological instruments.
- Discusses the meaning of cognitive symptoms and signs, and their neuroanatomical and neuropathological correlations.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
Author(s): Mario F. Mendez
Publisher: Elsevier
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Philadelphia
Cover
Front Matter
The Mental Status Examination Handbook
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Section I - Fundamentals of Mental Status Testing
1 - Introduction
2 - Principles of Mental Status Testing
3 - Common Clinical Disorders Affecting Mental Status Testing
4 - Essential Behavioral Neuroanatomy
Section II - Mental Status Testing
5 - Overview of the Mental Status Examination
6 - The Neurobehavioral History and Behavioral Observations
7 - Arousal, Attention, and Other Fundamental Functions
8 - Language and Speech
9 - Memory and Semantic Knowledge
10 - Constructional, Perceptual, and Spatial Abilities
11 - Praxis and Related Cortical Movement Abnormalities
12 - Calculations and Related Functions
13 - Executive Operations and Abilities
14 - The Neurological Behavioral Examination
Section III - Scales or Inventories, Neuropsychological Tests, and Computerized Techniques
15 - Overview of Scales and Inventories
16 - General Mental Status Scales, Rating Instruments, and Behavior Inventories
17 - Overview of Neuropsychological Testing
18 - Tele-Neurobehavior and Computerized Cognitive Tests
Appendix A - Index of Mental Status Tasks
Appendix B - Mental Status Scales
Key Select References
Index
