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This video shows an examiner assessing a patient’s mental status, including components such as orientation to time, place, and person, attention and concentration, memory, verbal and mathematical abilities, judgment, and reasoning.

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Examiner: Gary Horowitz, DO. Department of Neurology, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

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