Luria tests from Higher Cortical Functions in Man

Motor:
p.417 and on
1. copy hand postures- suggested to do with little visual input.
2. bimanual task-- closes patient eyes, places one hand in posture and asks patient to place opposite hand in same posture.
3. cites Head's test with mirror image imitation and imitation with same (ie left or right hand). Also, do imitation while touching left eye, right ear etc.
4. cites Ozeretskii (1930)- place one hand in fist, the other outstretched and alternate movement (premotor)reciprocal coordination
5. Place both hands in front, alternately tap twice with right hand, once with the left, with smooth transitions, and then switch the sides. Request the test to be done quickly.
6. Ozeretskii again- if one hand is paretic, do "fist ring" of other hand, thrust hand forward alternately making a fist, and a ring, testing premotor again.
7. Eidinova and Pravdina-Vinarskaya-- (1959)-- Start with a bent elbow, straight fingers, and ask patient to extend elbow, and at same time change hand position to a fist, rapidly. repeating. May eventually change the instruction to the opposite.
8. More difficult-- fist edge palm
9. Piano imitation-- ask patient on table to imitate playing piano with thumnb and first finger of one hand, and fingers 1-5 of other at same time. (and various combinations).
10. Doing above tasks with self spoken cues
11. writing alternating components (Russian equivalent of m and n)
12. Observation of everyday tasks (buttoning, lacing a shoe)
13. States that performance of imaginary acts such as pouring tea are sensitive but not equally susceptible to analytics.

Oral praxis p 425
1. Basic exam-- if patient can bare teeth once, ask him to sustain task for a long time.
2. touch tongue to upper lip, protrude it and keep it out for a while, looking for synkinesis, smoothness of movement
3. Stretch lips, roll up tongue, puff the cheeks and alternate these.
4. "Integrative tests" are chewing, spitting, kissing and whistling
5. Rid mouth of actual edible food which may be impossible even though above are preserved.