13) Psychiatric Assessment

Question 1

Suggest TWO ways in which you could assess someone’s right hemisphere function.

Answer 1

• Visual-spatial functions
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Clock drawing
• Map reading/directions

Question 2

What test may be used to assess a patient’s level of cognitive impairment?

Answer 2

MMSE

Question 3

Name THREE of the seven domains used in full cognitive assessment.

Answer 3

GOAL CRA:

• General - alertness, consciousness
• Orientation to time and place
• Abstraction
• Language
• Calculation
• Right hemisphere function
• Attention & concentration

Question 4

Suggest a cognitive assessment test which can be used differentiate between Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia.

Answer 4

Addenbroke’s cognitive examination

Question 5

What is the AMTS? Name THREE of the questions used in the AMTS.

Answer 5

Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS) used for rapid assessment of cognitive impairment, with questions such as:

• What is your age??
• What is your date of birth?
• Do you know where we are? (ward/hospital)
• Do you know the date today?
• Year WW2 ended?
• Do you know who the Prime Minister/Monarch is?
• Can you count back from 20 to 1?