Selnes and Gordon: Quick office neuropsych testing

A few novel suggestions by these two:
Orientation: Add time of day to questions to increase sensitivity
Attention: Use forward-reverse digit span rather than serial sevens
Memory-- NCSE (AnnInt Med) 1987 uses 4 words and a recognition memory function is better than three words recall.
Language-- use brief screening test, progress to more difficult
Visuoconstruction-- draw a clock face or Necker cube is better than copy test of MMSE
Perceptualability-- tell time from clock face
Frontal lobe-- 3 hand test of Luria no suggestions
Psychomotor speed-- write alphabet as quickly as possible. Normal isless than 20 seconds, abnormal ismore than 30 seconds.