TY - JOUR
T1 - Orientation to person, orientation to self
AU - Rapoport, Benjamin I.
AU - Rapoport, Samuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Academy of Neurology.
PY - 2015/12/8
Y1 - 2015/12/8
N2 - The neurologic examination often begins and then dispenses with an assessment of "orientation to person," a deceptively simple notion that has several features atypical of other elements of the examination. Unlike other principal components of the neurologic examination, orientation to person does not clearly correspond to a localizable function of the brain or nervous system, and there is no consensus on how it should be tested, what it signifies, and under what circumstances-if ever-it can truly be lost.
AB - The neurologic examination often begins and then dispenses with an assessment of "orientation to person," a deceptively simple notion that has several features atypical of other elements of the examination. Unlike other principal components of the neurologic examination, orientation to person does not clearly correspond to a localizable function of the brain or nervous system, and there is no consensus on how it should be tested, what it signifies, and under what circumstances-if ever-it can truly be lost.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949493495&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002188
DO - 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002188
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26644049
AN - SCOPUS:84949493495
SN - 0028-3878
VL - 85
SP - 2072
EP - 2074
JO - Neurology
JF - Neurology
IS - 23
ER -