Neurologic Exam-Adult | Mental Status Exam | Abnormal | Praxis

Mental Status Exam - Abnormal 07 - Praxis: The patient does well on most of the tests of praxis. At the very end when he is asked to show how to cut with scissors he uses his fingers as the blades of the scissors instead of acting like he is holding onto the handles of the scissors and cutting. This can be an early finding of inferior parietal lobe dysfunction.