Final Exam (Exam 4 - Dr. Price - 30 points)

Question 1

What is the DSM-5?

Answer 1

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 5th edition

Question 2

What is the MSE?

Answer 2

Mental Status Examination

Question 3

What is the diagnostic tool that describes the following:

-A description of current patient behavior, thoughts, perceptions, and functioning and provides an objective evaluation used for diagnosis, assessment of course of the illness, and response to treatment

Answer 3

Mental Status Examination (MSE)

Question 4

Name the seven components of the MSE.

Answer 4

1) Appearance and attitude towards examiner - overall dress (does it make sense for the weather outside, etc.), cleanliness, facial expressions; cooperative, mute, hostile, paranoid, or withdrawn
2) Activity - motor, fidgety, overactive, under active

3) Speech and language
- Abnormal = blocking, thought blocking, circumstantial speech, tangential speech, preservation, flight of ideas, mutism

4) Mood and Affect
- Affect = prevailing emotional tone; flat (no expressional change), labile, blunted
- Mood = more sustained feelings

5) Thought and perceptual disturbances - delusions, obsessions, compulsions, thought broadcasting, hallucinations, illusions
6) Neuropsychiatric evaluation - assessing sensorium (level of consciousness)
7) Insight and Judgement

Question 5

T/F: Thyroid diseases can cause manifestations of psychiatric conditions.

Answer 5

TRUE