Cognitive testing (intro)

Question 1

What to consider when administering cognitive tests

Answer 1

• medical conditions/daignosis
• medications
• environment
• equipment for you and patient
• level of education
• vision
• hearing
• language
• reading abilities

Question 2

Memory

Answer 2

• sensory memory (immediate recal)
• short term: 30 second to few days
• working memory: executive function
• long term memory: most likely stay intact

Question 3

executive function

Answer 3

• ability to organize, plan, carry out functions in efficient manner
• ability to monitor and control behaviors
• high level functioning
• what to do if there is fire in your house

Question 4

abstract conceptualization

Answer 4

• drawing on past experience and knowledge to formulate strategies or learn new things
• indentifying similarities or differences

Question 5

Attention

Answer 5

• ability to focus
• close or careful listening or observation

Question 6

Vigilance

Answer 6

• the state of being constantly attentive and responsive to signs of opportunity activity or danger
• pts w/cognitive impariments are missing 1 of these

Question 7

Visuoconstructional skills

Answer 7

• ability to copy
• draw from description

Question 8

language

Answer 8

• words: naming, repetition
• reading: ability, comprehension
• writing
• copying

Question 9

commonly used tests for cognition

Answer 9

• awake and oriented x3 or 4 (person, place, time, situation)
• folstein mini mental
• montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA)
• allen cogntitive level screen (ACLS)
• saint louis university mental status (SLUMS)
• brief cognitive assessment tool BCAT
• other