Cognitive tests

Question 1

MMSE

Answer 1

Mini Mental State Examination

Question 2

ACE III

Answer 2

Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination

Question 3

Phonemic fluency

Answer 3

Say words starting with the same letter

Frontal lobe

Question 4

Categorical fluency

Answer 4

Say animals (any letter)
Alzheimer's disease

Question 5

Perseveration

Answer 5

When naming animals, slip back into naming animals beginning with the same letter
Organic brain disease

Question 6

Circumlocution

Answer 6

Talk around subject as can’t remember word

Alzheimer’s disease

Question 7

Vascular damage

Answer 7

Often remember with prompting