. . . a presidential candidate must
be at least 35 years old, a natural-born U.S. citizen, and have at least 14 years of residence in the United States pass the Mental Status Examination
- a structured assessment of the patient's
- behavioral and
- cognitive functioning;
- it includes descriptions of the patient's
- appearance and general behavior,
- level of consciousness and attentiveness,
- motor and speech activity,
- mood and affect,
- thought and perception,
- attitude and insight,
- the reaction evoked in the examiner, and,
- finally, higher cognitive abilities.
The specific cognitive functions of alertness, language, memory, constructional ability, and abstract reasoning are the most clinically relevant.
