MSE Flashcards
DEFINITION OF MSE
Mental Status is a cross section of the patient’s psychological life and represents the sum total of the psychiatrist’s observations and impressions at the moment. It also serves for future comparison to follow the progress of the patient.
WHAT TO OBSERVE DURING MSE
GENERAL APPEARANCE
MOTORIC BEHAVIOR
ATTITUDE DURING INTERVIEW
MOOD
AFFECT
SPEECH
PERCEPTUAL DISORDER
THOUGHT CONTENT
THOUGHT PROCESS
SENSORIUM
MEMORY
CONCENTRATION AND CALCULATION
INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE
JUDGEMENT
INSIGHT LEVEL
GENERAL APPEARANCE
DRESS
GROOMING
POSTURE
GESTURES
FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
MOTORIC BEHAVIOR
LEVEL OF ACTIVITY—
PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION OR RETARDATION:
TICS
TREMORS
AUTOMATISM
MANNERISMS
GRIMACING
STEREOTYPES
NEGATIVISM
ATTITUDE DURING INTERVIEW
IRRITABLE
AGGRESSIVE
SEDUCTIVE
GUARDED
DEFENSIVE
INDIFFERENT
APATHETIC
COOPERATIVE
SARCASTIC
MOOD
GLOOMY
TENSE
HOPELESS
HAPPY
SAD
ECSTATIC
DEPRESSED
SPEECH
SLOW
FAST
PRESSURED
STUTTERING
STAMMERING
SLURRING
MUTE
INCOHERENT
PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS
HALLUCINATIONS—
OLFACTORY
AUDITORY
VISUAL
GUSTATORY
HAPTIC
ILLUSIONS
HYPNOPOMPIC OR HYPNAGOGIC EXPERIENCES
THOUGHT CONTENT
DELUSIONS
PERSECUTORY (PARANOID)
GRANDIOSE
INFIDELITY
SOMATIC
SENSORY
THOUGHT INSERTION
THOUGHT BROADCASTING
IDEAS OF REFERENCE
AFFECT
LABILE
BLUNT
APPROPRIATE TO CONTENT
INAPPROPRIATE
FLAT
THOUGHT PROCESS
GOAL DIRECTED IDEAS
LOOSENED ASSOCIATION
ILLOGICAL
RELEVANT
ABILITY TO ABSTRACT
FLIGHT OF IDEAS
CIRCUMSTANTIAL
RAMBLING
SENSORIUM
LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS—
ALERT
CLEAR
CONFUSED
CLOUDED
COMATOSE
MEMORY
REMOTE (LONG TERM MEMORY)
RECENT MEMORY
IMMEDIATE MEMORY
CONCENTRATION ANF CALCULATION
ABILITY TO PAY ATTENTION
DISTRACTIBILITY
ABILITY TO DO SIMPLE MATH
INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE
USE OF VOCABULARY
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
FUND OF KNOWLEDGE
