MSE

Question 1

MSE 10 components

Answer 1

General Observation (appearance, behave, attitude)
Mood
Affect
Speech
Thought
Perception
Sensorium
Insight
Judgment
Risk and Protective Factors

Question 2

Euthymic

Answer 2

neutral mood

Question 3

Thought content

Answer 3

subject matter
Delusions
Obsessions
Phobias
Suicide ideation
Homicide ideation

what it’s about

Question 4

Thought Process

Answer 4

thought formation and expression

How thoughts are linked

Question 5

Loose associations

Answer 5

shifting from one topic to an unrelated topic, the patient seems unaware that topics are unconnected

Question 6

Circumstantiality

Answer 6

talking with excessive and unnecessary detail, delay in reaching point, sentences have a meaningful connection but are irrelevant

Question 7

Echolalia

Answer 7

meaningless repetition/imitating another person’s speech

Question 8

Clang association

Answer 8

In this speech pattern, the linkage of ideas is based upon sound and not upon related meaning (rhyming: “I have to go you know”; “to and fro before the snow blows”) bipolar, schizophrenia

Question 9

Tangentiality

Answer 9

Is similar to circumstantiality. The person starts to express a thought but diverts into other streams and never gets around to communicate the central ideas (never answers the question) severe anxiety, schizophrenia, dementia

Question 10

Thought blocking

Answer 10

sudden interruption in train of though, seems relation to strong emotion

Question 11

Neologisms

Answer 11

making up words (pepsidiction = pepsi addiction)

Question 12

Perseveration

Answer 12

persistant repeating of verbal or motor repsonce even with varied stimuli

Question 13

Flight of ideas

Answer 13

abrupt change, rapid skipping from topic to topic, practically continuous flow of accelerated speech topics usually have recognizable association or are play on words

Question 14

Word salad

Answer 14

sequence of words with no words, sequence of very muddled words (puppy paper eating)

Question 15

Depersonalization

Answer 15

feeling of losing ones realith, unreality of self

Question 16

Somatization

Answer 16

the production of recurrent and multiple medical symptoms with no discernible organic cause.

Question 17

Derealization

Answer 17

unreality of enviornment

Question 18

Hallucinations

Answer 18

an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.

Question 19

Illusions

Answer 19

a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. (misinterpretation of a correct sensory input)

Question 20

7. Sensorium

Answer 20

Level of consciousness
Orientation
Memory
Attention and concentration

Question 21

10. Risk and Protective Factors

Answer 21

Risk of harm to self
Risk of harm to others
Risk of worsening illness

Protective factors