| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Principles of Mental Status Testing -- Common Clinical Disorders Affecting Mental Status Testing -- Essential Behavioral Neuroanatomy -- Overview of the Mental Status Examination -- The Neurobehavioral History and Behavioral Observations -- Arousal, Attention, and Other Fundamental Functions -- Language and Speech -- Memory and Semantic Knowledge -- Constructional, Perceptual, and Spatial Abilities -- Praxis and Related Cortical Movement Abnormalities -- Calculations and Related Functions -- Executive Operations and Abilities -- The Neurological Behavioral Examination -- Overview of Scales and Inventories -- General Mental Status Scales, Rating Instruments, and Behavior Inventories -- Overview of Neuropsychological Testing -- Tele-Neurobehavior and Computerized Cognitive Tests |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mental status examination -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Neurologic examination.
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Psychological tests.
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Mental Status and Dementia Tests
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Neurologic Examination
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Psychological Tests
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Interview, Psychological -- methods
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Mental Disorders -- diagnosis
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Psychological tests
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Neurologic examination
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Mental status examination
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780323694896 |
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0323694896 |
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