Professor Matthew Kiernan
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And there's testing for word-finding difficulties, but also then trails.
So, for instance, doing networks of shapes and sizes, doing...
images of clocks, understanding times.
Another test is verbal fluency.
That's the frontal lobe function.
So for instance, I don't know if you want to do it on the spot, but tell me all the letters, all the words that you can think of with the letter M.
uh, words.
Yeah.
Perfect.
You've still got about another 10 or 20 seconds.
But more than double figures in a minute is normal.
And also you're looking at the words you used there.
Like some of those were three or four syllables.
So they're very complex words.
So it's totally normal.
But this is part of the cognitive assessment.
Well, we have got risk assessment profiles through the neuro website and they're all free.
Is that neuro.com.au?
Yeah, that's it.
And I think it's also just your engagement in life, like people like Sudokus or reading the newspapers or, you know, looking at the stock market, talking about the โ