MSE

Question 1

what do you write down for affect

Answer 1

fluctuate - stable or labile amount - normal blunted or flat range - restricted or expansive type - sad/ hostile/ euohoric

Question 2

passivity

Answer 2

think that they are being controlled by someone else

Question 3

what are psuedohallucinations

Answer 3

patient is aware its not real

Question 4

what is thought broadcasting

Answer 4

belief that others can hear the patients thoughts

Question 5

people are talking about me

Answer 5

paranoid delusion

Question 6

“the child across the street has a remote control which controls what I do and say”

Answer 6

passivity

Question 7

patient is looking around the room or talking to something that is not there

Answer 7

hallucinations

Question 8

patient has no emotional expression at al

Answer 8

flat affect

Question 9

have loads of plans and things they want to do

Answer 9

rapid thoughts

Question 10

what do you write down for behaviour?

Answer 10

body language eye contact + facial expression h - arousal v slow or fact engagement

Question 11

patient is one minute ecstatic the next minute crying

Answer 11

labile and expansive

Question 12

affect

Answer 12

how they appear to feel

Question 13

loosening of associations

Answer 13

flow from one topic to another very quickly

Question 14

patient believes that the tv in the next room is people talking

Answer 14

illusion

Question 15

grandiose delusion

Answer 15

believe they are amazing or have special powers

Question 16

how would you describe a patient who has gone off topic and never gets back to it?

Answer 16

tangential

Question 17

the neighbours and putting thoughts into my mind to try and control me

Answer 17

thought insertion

Question 18

how would you describe a normal flow?

Answer 18

linear

Question 19

patient keeps wanting to kill their baby but they hate thinking about it

Answer 19

obsessions

Question 20

ideas of reference

Answer 20

irrelevant occurances relate to themselves

Question 21

patient only seems to exibit one type of mood and cannot change to another

Answer 21

restricted affect

Question 22

flight of ideas

Answer 22

rapid thought

Question 23

what do you write down for speech?

Answer 23

tone amount loud or quite ketamine (increased rate and slurred)

Question 24

the radio is telling me the cure for cancer

Answer 24

ideas of reference

Question 25

keep jumping from topic to topic because one thing reminds them of something else (which is usually irrelevant)

Answer 25

loosening of association

Question 26

what is the oppsite of labile

Answer 26

stable

Question 27

what do you document in insight?

Answer 27

is the patient aware that they have a problem

Question 28

what do you write down for appearance?

Answer 28

4cs clothing catching cleanliness cutting

Question 29

what are illusions

Answer 29

misinterpreted perception such as mistaking a shadow for a person

Question 30

what would you write down for cognition?

Answer 30

concentration orientation short term memory test (moca/ ace) attention

Question 31

paranoid delusion s

Answer 31

people are talking about me

Question 32

what are obsessions

Answer 32

patient is aware that they are irrational but that doesn't stop the thought coming into their head

Question 33

the neighbours are listening to my thoughts

Answer 33

thought broadcasting

Question 34

patient told good news and they don't seem happy about it just the same

Answer 34

blunted affect

Question 35

the neighbours are removing my thoughts so I cannot plan an attack on them

Answer 35

thought withdrawal - pathological way of describing thought blocking

Question 36

what do you document in judgement

Answer 36

ask them what they would do if they could smell smoke in a house -- see if they can problem solve

Question 37

patient who looks in the mirror and sees them to be fat when they are thin

Answer 37

overvalued ideas

Question 38

what is thought insertion

Answer 38

belief that thoughts can be put into the patienst mind

Question 39

what do you write down for thought?

Answer 39

form - speed/ flow (tangential/ circumstantial) content - violent/ self harming/ delusional/ obsessions new - withdrawal broadcasting insertion

Question 40

patient reports seeing people in her bedroom but says that she thinks it isn't real its all in her head

Answer 40

psuedohallicinations

Question 41

what is overvalued ideas

Answer 41

perception of weight in a person with anorexia

Question 42

thing they can cure cancer

Answer 42

grandiose delusion

Question 43

what is thought withdrawal?

Answer 43

belief that thought are being removed from their heads

Question 44

how would you describe a patienst thoughts if they are talking gibberish and you cannot make out what they are meaning

Answer 44

incoherebt

Question 45

what do youwrite about a patients perceoption?

Answer 45

hallucinations psuedohallucinations illusions

Question 46

how would you describe a patient who stays on the topic but gives too much detaisl about it

Answer 46

circumstantial

Question 47

mood

Answer 47

how the patient reports that they feel?