The K-MMSE included items assessing orientation (5 points for time- and 5 points for place-orientation), memory (3 points for immediate- and 3 points for delayed-recall), serial subtractions (5 points), language ability (2 points for naming, 3 points for oral command comprehension, and 1 point each for repetition, reading, and writing), and visuospatial ability (1 point).
The curves for "Ideational praxis", "Construction" and "Word finding", "Speech comprehension", "Commands", "Speech content" and "Naming" overlap considerably implying that they yield more or less the same information about patient's stage of cognitive decline.
In the comprehension of commands test the participant performs various tasks in response to commands that range in complexity from simple (e.g., "put the fork in the glass") to more complex (e.g., "open the first envelope, turn over the cup and pick up the spoon").
Token test [ 31] is a measure of verbal comprehension of commands of increasing complexity.
Conclusion: Despite the theoretical appeal of time to motor localization (eg, in persons with language comprehension problems), time to command following appears to be a more powerful predictor of outcome after severe brain injury.
Patients will undergo a broad battery of neuroimaging tests using fMRI and EEG to document preserved sound perception, speech perception and comprehension, visual perception, attention, memory, command following, and communication abilities.
It scores the ability to perform simple, highly practiced, voluntary movements in response to a verbal command or imitation, and therefore measures verbal comprehension and motor co-ordination and is used to monitor changes in cognitive function.
The results of this study show an age effect on auditory sentence comprehension, only for more complex commands.
Patients who required at least mechanical ventilation were screened daily for awakening and comprehension using five simple verbal commands as previously described [ 13, 14].
A hierarchical fMRI auditory paradigm suggested he was able to perceive sound and speech, but revealed no evidence of speech comprehension or ability to respond to command.
Bay doesn't deign to extend his extraordinary control to the images; he substitutes attitude for comprehension and swagger for observation, and, for all his meticulous command over the movie's elements of action and design, performance and effect, his taste is cheerfully execrable.
