Clinical Approach to Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Symptoms.

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article provides a framework for the approach to patients with cognitive or neurobehavioral concerns. RECENT FINDINGS: Recent advances in structural neuroimaging, functional neuroimaging, and disease biomarkers have greatly expanded knowledge of brain-behavior relationships, neural networks and functional connectivity, and pathophysiologic processes leading to cognitive and neurobehavioral disorders. However, any one of these studies is subject to misinterpretation if not applied in the appropriate clinical context. SUMMARY: A systematic approach to the history and examination in patients with cognitive and neurobehavioral symptoms is important in marrying clinical assessments with contemporary diagnostic studies and treatments.