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Hi, everyone. Hi everyone, Bale here. Today we continue our campaign to end neurophobia with the help of Dr. Aaron Berkowitz.

This time, Bain presents a case of ultra-mental status to A.

Bayan is a senior medical student from Syria with a passion for neurology and a drive to make a difference in healthcare.

A is an IMG from Myanmar doing research

in San Luis who is applying to the match this year. I hope you enjoy the episode.

Chief Complaints is a 71 year old female presenting with altered mental status. I can stop here

or give you more. That's okay. Let's stop here. So A, how do you think broadly about altered mental status? We don't have too many details, but just your broad framework.

Yeah, with alternative status, as you have taught us about that, we will have different shares for like neurology causes or psychological causes and other systemic causes for like neurology causes or psychological causes and other systemic causes.

So like neurology, we have a lot of broad differences, like affecting the brain for sure.

So it can be infections like autoimmune or for infections like endosophil, meningitis, and also intra-implitis.

And also there could be like pre-epis and it could also be like pre-empsis.

And it could also be like presenting for like seizures.

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