| Sumario: | During mental status examination, Evelyn is mildly anxious and calm. She is coherent without looseness of associations, pressure of speech, flight of ideas, or evidence of hallucinations. She is very pleasant and very cooperative. She is oriented to person, place, time, and situation. She demonstrates fair concentration (or math difficulties) as revealed by difficulty subtracting serial 7s accurately but can accurately and rapidly subtracts serial 3s. She demonstrates good concentration by being able to spell a 5-letter word forward and backwards. She has excellent immediate recall as she immediately repeats 3 items and 3 to 6-digit numbers. Her concentration is good as she can reverse 4 and 5-digit numbers. (She cannot reverse 6-digit numbers) She has good recent memory, almost fully remembering 3 items at 5 minutes, needing one cue. Her recent memory is good as she can describe major current events. Her past memory is excellent as she can name major past events and recall important general information. She can make simple change. She gives both concrete and abstract to describe similarities of items. She is capable of giving very abstract interpretations to general proverbs. Her affect is mildly anxious and she has a full range of appropriate affect. She describes her present mood as 'pretty upbeat,' and her recent mood as 'pretty upbeat, pretty good.' She demonstrates good judgment with her answers to formal judgment questions. She demonstrates excellent insight that she is being evaluated for attention deficit. When asked about 3 wishes, she replies, 'I don't have attention deficit issues, I could live happy, and happy and wealthy.'
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