Mental Status Exam/Lecture 1

Question 1

Euthymic mood

Answer 1

Mood is stable`

Question 2

Pervasive feeling state or emotion of how a person is feeling: _____

Answer 2

mood

Question 3

____ (mood or affect) is sustained and influences how a person responds to other people

Answer 3

mood

Question 4

____ is the objectively observable expression of a person’s mood state

Answer 4

affect

Question 5

Echolalia

Answer 5

Repeating the question you were asked

Question 6

Neologisms

Answer 6

Making up new words

Question 7

Perseveration

Answer 7

getting stuck on something

Question 8

Clanging

Answer 8

Thoughts are associated by sound of words rather than their meaning–>ie through rhyming

Question 9

Thought blocking

Answer 9

When you start a sentence and just stop

Question 10

Egosystonic

Answer 10

Having thoughts that you do want

Question 11

Egodystonic

Answer 11

Having thoughts that you do not want

Question 12

Thought form

Answer 12

ways in which ideas are linked

Question 13

Thought content

Answer 13

describes patient’s ideas

Question 14

Delusions

Answer 14

fixed false beliefs that are not consistent with social norms

Question 15

Obsessions

Answer 15

unwanted intrusive thoughts

Question 16

Preocupations

Answer 16

thoughts that dominate a person’s thinking but are not unwanted

Question 17

Hallucination

Answer 17

disturbances in perception without external stimulation

Question 18

2 types of normal hallucinations:

Answer 18

Hypnogogic and hypernopompic

Question 19

Hypnogogic hallucinations:

Answer 19

experienced while falling asleep

Question 20

Hypnopompic hallucinations:

Answer 20

experienced while waking up

Question 21

Depersonalization

Answer 21

belief that you are not real

Question 22

Derealization

Answer 22

belief that the world around you is not real

Question 23

Formication:
definition–>
Associated with–>

Answer 23

tactile hallucination of insects crawling on skin

associated with alcohol withdrawl

Question 24

Insight

Answer 24

capacity to recognize and understand their own symptoms and illness

Question 25

Judgement

Answer 25

ability to appreciate the effects of their behavior on their own future/well being of others

Question 26

Circumstantiality

Answer 26

over-inclusion of trivial or irrelevant details that impede the sense of getting to the point

Question 27

Loose associations

Answer 27

breakdown between logical connection between ideas and goal directedness; ie words make sentences, but sentences don’t make sense

Question 28

Tangientiality

Answer 28

Response to question that is appropriate to the general topic without actually answering the question