Mental State Examination
- Neatly groomed and attired gentleman wearing spectacles.
- Warm and friendly demeanour.
- Good eye contact, easy rapport.
- Mood “happy”, affect cheerful, reactive and congruent.
- Speech effortful and halting with marked and frequent word-finding difficulty, occasional bursts of fluency marked by the use of circumlocutions and word approximations.
- Goal-directed thought form.
- No delusional beliefs or suicidal thoughts.
- No hallucinations.
- Alert and orientated.
- Preserved insight into cognitive deficits.
- Judgement intact.