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Mental State Flashcards

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what are the areas of mental state exam

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appearance, speech, thought form, mood and affect, disorders of thought content, perception, cognition, insight

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what are you looking for in appearance

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general health, posture, tattoos, piercings, injection sites, well kempt?, mannerisms, eye contact, rapport, abnormal movements- result of antipsychotics or tics, stereotypy, mannerisms, motor activity

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what are you looking at in speech

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tone, rate, volume

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what is normal speech

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spontaneous, relevant, logical, coherent

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what is circumstantial speech

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takes a long time to get to the point

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what is perseveration (speech)

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repeating of words or topics suggests frontal lobe dysfunction, schizophrenia, OCD

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what is neologisms (speech)

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made up words- can occur in schizophrenia

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what are some abnormal forms of thought

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flight of ideas (abnormal connection), loosening of associations (no discernible link, Knights move), thought block (subjective experience of thought is abnormal)

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what happens in pressured speech (can occur in mania)

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incr rate and volume

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what happens to speech in depression

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poverty of speech and thought block- decr tone, rate, vol

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what is mood

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patients underlying emotion report subjective mood and objective- euthymic, dysthymic, hyperthymic

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what is affect

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observed external manifestation of emotion. blunted (schizophrenia), labile, irritable, suspicious

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what is labile

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excessively changeable

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what is incongruous (affect)

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grossly out of tune with subjects being discussed eg laughing about bereavement

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what is the affect described as if it is normal and no abnormality

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reactive

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what are some disorders of thought content

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negative, ruminations, beliefs, delusions, phobias, obsessions, depersonalisation, derealisation, ideas of reference

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what are ruminations

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persistent, disabling preoccupations

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what is depersonalisation

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feeling detached, unreal

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what is derealisation

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feel like the world and people are lifeless

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what are delusions

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disorders of thought content. fixed, false beliefs out of keeping with culture

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examples of delusions

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grandiose, persecutory, of reference, thought insertion/withdrawal/broadcast, passivity

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what are grandiose delusions

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being famous, having supernatural powers, enormous wealth

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what are persecutory delusions

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someone interfering in a malicious way

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what are delusions of reference

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other people, media etc talking about you or communicating to you

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thought withdrawal/insertion/broadcast

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external someone controlling thoughts

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passivity

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actions, feelings being controlled by external

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what can be abnormal perceptions

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illusions, hallucinations, psuedohallucinations

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what is an illusion

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misintepretation of normal perception can occur in healthy people

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what is a hallucination

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perception in the absence of external stimulus

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what is a pseudohallucination

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internal perception with preserved insight

31
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what are you testing in cognition

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conciousness, memory, orientation, concentration, attention

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what test can you do for cognition

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Mini mental state examination (MMSE)

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insight

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understanding of condition, cause and willingness to accept treatment

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what is echolalia

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repeating another persons words

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what is cotard delusion

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believe dead already or dying, losing blood, organs etc

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what is capgras delusion

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delusion that friend, spouse etc have been replaced by identical looking imposter

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what is couvade delusion

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sympathetic pregnancy- husband gets symptoms of mothers pregnancy

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what is Fregoli delusion

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belief that friend, spouse is replaced by a twin imposter

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what is Ekbom delusion

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delusional parasitosis- psychosis

40
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difference between primary and secondary delusion

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primary- not understandable, fixed- capgras, cotard, etc etc. secondary can be understandable in mood context- persecution, grandiose etc

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what is echo de la pensee

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thought echo-voices heard within mind

42
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in auditory hallucinations what should you differentiate

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if it is a second person or a 2nd person talking to 3rd person

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