MSE MMSE Flashcards

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10 components of MSE

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ABS AMT PCIJ (ABS MAT PCIJ)
Appearance
Behaviour
Speech

Affect
Mood
Thought

Perception
Cognition
Insight
Judgment

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2
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A way of describing how you think the patient is feeling right now

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Affect

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3
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6 things to look for in Affect?

QIRMRC

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Quality
Intensity
Range
Mobility
Reactivity
Congruence
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4
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3 things in Thought

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Stream
Form
Content

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5
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Types of formal thought disorders

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Loosening of associations (Tangentiality, Derailment)
Clang associations
Flight of ideas
Circumstantiality
Perseveration
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6
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When the point is gradually lost as the patient speaks

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Tangentiality

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7
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Sentences make sense but are not connected between them.

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Derailment

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8
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Sentences are linked to the next one but the point rapidly shifts each time. Seen in mania

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Flight of ideas

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9
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Providing way too much irrelvant detail but eventually returning to the point

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Anxiety

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Keeps returning to same theme

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Perseveration

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11
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Blunted affect with restricted range

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schizophrenia

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12
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Flat affect with restricted range

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Severe depression

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13
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Thoughts associated by the sound of words rather than by their meaning e.g. rhyming or assonance

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Clang associations

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14
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Flight of ideas, pressured speech

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Mania

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15
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An object is there to trigger this visual thing but it is ALWAYS correctable

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Illusion

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16
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An actual perception is misinterpreted as something else AND not easily corrected

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Misinterpretation/Misidentification

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A sense that a feeling, thought or action is being forced upon by the person

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Passivity phenomenon

18
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A person’s sense that something is “not” right with themselves

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Depersonalisation

19
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A person’s sense that something is “not” right with their surroundings

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Derealisation

20
Q

All the characteristics of a normal perception but it’s NOT ACTUALLY THERE

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Hallucination

21
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types of hallucinations

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auditory
visual
olfactory
tactile
gustatory
somatic
22
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Thoughts not perceived to be the person’s own that have been inserted, removed etc

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Thought alienation

23
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Abhorrent (ego-dystonic) and inescapable thoughts

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Obsessions

24
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Actions performed in response to obsessions, generally temporarily reducing the associated anxiety

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Compulsions

25
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Thoughts held with absolute conviction, that are fixed, poorly substantiated, not understandable from the person’s background

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Delusions

26
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Delusions that are inconsistent with the patient’s mood

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Mood incongruent delusion

27
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the false belief that irrelevant occurrences or details directly relate to oneself

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Ideas of reference