EXAMINATION of the mental state is essential in evaluating psychiatric patients.1 Many investigators have added quantitative assessment of cognitive performance to the standard examination, and have documented reliability and validity of the several “clinical tests of the sensorium”.2*3 The available batteries are lengthy. For example, WITHERS and HINTON’S test includes 33 questions and require...

This study aimed to assess the prevalence of malnutrition and risk older adults, identify socio-demographic medical characteristics that affect nutritional status adults in Konya city centrum. cross-sectional was conducted between April July. Sociodemographic history questionnaire prepared by researcher, Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) Mini-Mental State Examin...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSdProspective cohort analysis of data from the ACCORD trial included 2,956 adults aged $55 years with type 2 diabetes and additional cardiovascular risk factors. Cognitive tests (Digit Symbol Substitution Test [DSST], Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Stroop Test, and Mini Mental Status Examination) were conducted at baseline and 20 months. Study outcomes were inciden...

Abstract Background and Aims Malnutrition is associated with poor cognitive function (CI) in Hemodialysis (HD) patients. Both have multiple ways of assessment scaled from simple bedside screening tests to more sophisticated time- cost-consuming measures. This work aims define the best nutritive measure that correlates degree CI. Method A cross-sectional study was carried out on 116 patients 4 d...

OBJECTIVE The social disability associated with ADHD often makes diagnostic and treatment decision making challenging. This protocol investigates the test performance of the Autism Mental Status Exam (AMSE) in detecting autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a sample of 45 children with ADHD and ASD symptomatology. The AMSE is a brief ASD diagnostic assessment administered in the context of a clinic...

SUMMARY A 23-year-old female student presented with a five-year history of abnormal sleep in which she would sit up or stand up for brief periods in the early morning, talk loudly for a couple of minutes and then lie back down. When woken by family members she would remember vivid dreams and nightmares. In one episode she had a fall that resulted in a subdural hematoma. On presentation at the p...

BACKGROUND One of the components of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the request to write a sentence. We investigated the relationship between the characteristics of the written sentence of the MMSE and the cognitive and affective status of elderly patients. METHODS The characteristics of the sentence were compared to the total MMSE score, sociodemographic characteristics, tests ev...

A 57-year-old man presented to our emergency department with altered mental status. He had a past medical history significant for cirrhosis and previous placement of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). On cardiac auscultation, a new heart murmur and an unexpected degree of cardiac ectopy were noted. On the 12-lead electrocardiogram, the patient was noted to have multiple pre...