The Mini-Mental State Examination
Mini-Mental State Examination
Orientation:
  What is the (year)(season)(date)(day)(month)?
  Where are we (state)(county)(town)(hospital)(floor)?
Registration:
  Repeat 3 objects.
    Number of trials:  
Attention:
 
Recall:
  Ask for the 3 objects repeated above.
Language:
  Name a pencil and watch.
  Repeat "No ifs, ands or buts."
  Three stage command:
    "Take this paper in your right hand,
    fold it in half, and put it on the floor."
  Read and obey the following: "Close your eyes."
  Write a sentence.
  Copy intersecting pentagons.
Score:   score
 
reset generate



Based on Marshal F. Folstein, Susan E. Folstein and Paul R. McHugh, “‘Mini-Mental State.’  A Practical Method for Grading the Cognitive State of Patients for the Clinician.”  J. Psychiat. Res. 12(3): 189-198, 1975.

Script © 2005 by Russell W. Cottrell, M.D.