MSE Flashcards
App and behav
Description Psychomotor Tics Rapport Other abn behav Aggression
Speech
Rate Rhythm Content and coherance Tone Formal thought disorder- unconnected ideas.
Mood and affect
Subjective and onjective mood
Affect- emot reacs
Thought
Form- delusion, obsession, thought interf etc
Content- what the thought is eg type of delusion
Suicidal ideation
Perception
Illusions
Hallucins
Pseudohallucins
Cognition
General obs
MMSE
Specif lobe exams
Cog funcs incl learning, reasoning, prob solv, percep, judgem, concentration.
Hx mnemonic GOAL CRAMP- general alertness, orientat time place person, atten and concentrat, lang, calculation, right hemis func ie visuospatial, abstraction, memory, other eg praxis/gnosis/agnosia.
Ass scales for screening- MMSE 23 cut off, CAMCog, AMTS, clock drawing test.
Insight
Presence of mental illness
Need for tx
Use of tx