RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
A1 Prasad, Sashank
SR Print(0)
ID 1162601634
T1 Derangements of Intellect, Behavior, and Language Caused by Diffuse and Focal Cerebral Disease: Introduction
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 11e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071842617
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162601634
RD 2024/04/24
AB Physicians  sooner  or  later  discover,  through  clinical  experience,  the  need  for  special  competence  in  assessing  the  mental  faculties  of  their  patients.  They  must  be  able  to  observe  with  objectivity  the  patient’s  attention,  intelligence,  memory,  judgment,  mood,  character,  and  other  attributes  of  cognitive  performance,  and  personality  in  much  the  same  fashion  as  they  observe  the  patient’s  movements,  gait,  and  reflexes.  The  systematic  examination  of  these  intellectual  and  affective  functions  permits  the  physician  to  reach  conclusions  regarding  the  patient’s  mental  status  and  its  relationship  to  his  illness.  Without  such  data,  there  are  likely  to  be  errors  in  the  diagnosis  and  treatment  of  the  patient’s  neurologic,  general  medical,  and  psychiatric  disease.