The mental status exam checks the cerebral cortex — orientation, memory, and especially language. Each language area has a job, and a lesion there causes a specific aphasia. Tap a region.
Prefrontal cortex
left hemisphere · front at left
Mental statuscortex & language
The areas
📷 Reference image
A real labeled figure to compare with the interactive above.
Mental Status & Language — OpenStax, CC BY 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
