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what the risks are memory, word comprehension, orientation, attention span, cognitive tests, mental status tests, assess a person's thinking abilities, a disease, condition is affecting them, tell provider whether condition is improving, getting worse, following tests performed, orientation, season, place where live, type of building, city, state, occupation, attention span, test ability to complete a thought, evident, conversation, follow a series, directions, base conclusions on performance, recent memory, memory of people, places, events, been involved in life, recent memory, ask questions related to recent events in life, world around you, remote memory, memory of people, places, events that occurred earlier in life, remote memory, ask, childhood, school, historical events that occurred earlier in life, word comprehension, word comprehension tests knowledge of common items, point to everyday items, in the room, have name them, judgment, to test judgment, ability to exercise alternative solutions to a given problem, situation, provider might ask, "what would, a police officer approached from behind, car, lights flashing", "if found a driver's license on the ground, what would, ", no preparation is necessary, all responses, natural, spontaneous, honest, by a highly intelligent person, could distort the results, the test by making it appear that cognitive function has not diminished, in fact, has, no physical discomfort, orientation to person, place, normal attention span, intact recent memory, intact remote memory, normal word comprehension, reading, writing, intact judgment, each test, identify different possible problems, described below, orientation, orientation to time is first to be lost, orientation to place, to person, many possible causes, disorientation, alcohol intoxication, low blood sugar, head trauma, concussion, fluid, electrolyte imbalance, nutritional deficiencies, particularly lack of niacin, thiamine, vitamin c, vitamin b-12, hyperthermia, fever, hypothermia, a drop in body temperature, cause sudden confusion, hypoxemia, chronic pulmonary disorders, produce persistent confusion, environmental, heat stroke, heavy metal poisoning, hypothermia, methanol intoxication, drugs, atropine, chloroquine, cimetidine, cns depressants in large doses, cycloserine, oral digitalis medicines, indomethacin, lidocaine, withdrawal from narcotics, barbiturates, organic brain disease, attention span, unable to complete a thought, distracted by other stimuli, have an abnormal attention span, number of causes, a few examples, attention deficit disorder, add, confusion, manic depressive illness, histrionic personality disorder, schizophrenia, recent and remote memory, organic syndromes, loss of recent memory, remote memory remains intact, remote memory is lost, is damage, upper part, the brain, occurs in alzheimer's disease, memory loss, word comprehension, reading, and writing, tests screen, aphasia, aphasia, head trauma, senile dementia, alzheimer's type, stroke, transient ischemic attack, judgment, we exercise judgment in all of our daily activities, ability, an appropriate course of action is vital to survival in many situations, impaired judgment, mental retardation, emotional dysfunction, schizophrenia, organic brain disease, no risks associated, some tests that screen, aphasia, language, due to brain dysfunction, involving reading, writing, not account, never have been able to read, write, person to be tested has never been able to read, write, notify the health care provider in advance, child is having any of these tests performed, important to help understand the reasons, the tests.