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Describe some bedside tests of frontal lobe function

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  • Verbal fluency and initiation
    • Words starting with “s” in 1 min (< 10 abnormal)
  • Abstract thinking
    • Interpret a proverb
    • Explain linkage between “praise and punishment”, “banana and orange”, “poem and statue”
  • Clock drawing test (executive and praxis)
    • Draw hand at 10 past 5
  • Response inhibition
    • Draw a alternating series of triangles and squares, ask patient to copy. Perseveration if they just copy one shape

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