block 6 lecture 3

Question 1

over view of mental state examination?

Answer 1

appearance
speech
mood
thought content
abnormal beliefs
cognitive state
insight

Question 2

what is echopraxia?

Answer 2

automatic imitation of another movement

Question 3

what is a tic?

Answer 3

repeated irregular movement

Question 4

what are poor eye contact and hunched shoulders an indication of?

Answer 4

depression

Question 5

what is mania?

Answer 5

elevated mood

Question 6

what is depressive retardation?

Answer 6

slow movements

Question 7

what is it when someone is immobile but fully conscious?

Answer 7

stupor

Question 8

obsessive slowness?

Answer 8

compulsive rituals

Question 9

psychomotor agitation?

Answer 9

unproductive overactvity, restlessness

Question 10

what are compulsions?

Answer 10

repetative stereotyped seemingly purposeful behaviour

Question 11

what should you look for with speech?

Answer 11

rate, quantity

Question 12

what happens to speech in mania?

Answer 12

increased pace

Question 13

what is rate reduced by?

Answer 13

depression

Question 14

when is quantity increased?

Answer 14

mania and anxiety

Question 15

when is quantity reduced?

Answer 15

depression, schizophrenia and dementia

Question 16

what is poverty of speech?

Answer 16

restricted speech

Question 17

what is mutism?

Answer 17

complete loss of speech

Question 18

what is dysarthria?

Answer 18

difficulty articulating speech

Question 19

what is flight of speech?

Answer 19

accelerated thoughts and abrupt changes in topic

Question 20

what is neogolism?

Answer 20

a new world/ everyday word used in a special way

Question 21

echoalia?

Answer 21

automatic imitation of speech

Question 22

thought blocking?

Answer 22

interruption in the train of thought = blank

Question 23

knights move?

Answer 23

disruption of continuous speech?

Question 24

psychosis?

Answer 24

abnormal condition of the mind with a loss of contact with reality

Question 25

what is a subjective assessment?

Answer 25

described by the patient

Question 26

what is dysphoric mood?

Answer 26

unpleasant mood

Question 27

anhedonia?

Answer 27

loss of interest in regular pleasurable activities

Question 28

what is euphoria?

Answer 28

exaggerated feeling of well being

Question 29

what are panic attacks?``

Answer 29

acute intense episodic attacks

Question 30

what is an inappropriate affect?

Answer 30

talking cheerfully about a sad thing

Question 31

what is a flat affect?

Answer 31

no emotion

Question 32

what is hyperchondriasis?

Answer 32

fear of having a serious illness

Question 33

what is a phobia?

Answer 33

persistant irrational fear

Question 34

what is dellusion?

Answer 34

false personal belief based on inference

Question 35

what are some types of delusion?

Answer 35

persecutory delusion/ reference/ granduer/ doubles/ somatic

Question 36

what is a reference delusion?

Answer 36

behavior of other refers to them e.g. on the TV/radio

Question 37

what is a doubles delusion?

Answer 37

thinking someone has been replaced

Question 38

what is a nihilistic delusion?

Answer 38

think things of the body are missing

Question 39

what is erotomania?

Answer 39

clerambaults syndrome thinking someone is in love with them

Question 40

what are primary delusions?

Answer 40

fully formed without any connection with previous events

Question 41

what are secondary delusions?

Answer 41

when people try and make sense of what is happeneing

Question 42

what is the passivity phenomina?

Answer 42

the belief of an external agency controlling ones self

Question 43

what is thought insertion?

Answer 43

people think thoughts are being put into their brains

Question 44

thought withdrawl?

Answer 44

people think thoughts are being removed

Question 45

thought broadcasting?

Answer 45

thinking people can know and hear your thoughts

Question 46

what is a illusion?

Answer 46

false false perception of real external stimulus

Question 47

hallucination?

Answer 47

false sensory perception

Question 48

Pareidolia

Answer 48

vivid imagery occurs without conscious effort

Question 49

what are some disorders of self awareness?

Answer 49

depersonalisation and derealisation

Question 50

what is insight?

Answer 50

do you think you are ill