MSE Practice Flashcards

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Appearance in Depression

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May begin to neglect personal hygiene and grooming, dresses in drab colours

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Behaviour in Depression

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Agitation, restlessness, marked fatigue, stooped posture and wringing, socially withdrawn and in severe depression psychomotor retardation.

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Speech in Depression

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Decreased rate and rhythm, mutism, increased latency, soft, monotonous.

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Affect in Depression

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Flat, constricted

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Mood in Depression

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Document their mood using the patient’s self report: down, depressed, sad, blue, unhappy

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Thought in Depression

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Poverty of ideas, poor concentration. Content: Thoughts of worthlessness, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, inappropriate guilt. Occasionally mood congruent delusions.

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Perception in Psychotic depression

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Occasionally mood congruent hallucinations

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Cognition in Depression

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Memory gaps due to concentration

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Insight in Depression

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May range from impaired to good

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Judgement in Depression

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Impaired by negative thoughts

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Appearance in Anxiety

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Ranges from fastidious to disheveled

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Behaviour in Axiety

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Psychomotor agitation, tremor, fidgety, hyper-vigilant, frozen with fear, avoidant, limited cooperation

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Speech in Axiety

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Pressured but interruptible or poverty of speech

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Affect in Axiety

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Anxious, scared, labile, irritable, angry

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Mood in Axiety

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Document their mood using the patient’s self report: angry, anxious

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Thought in Axiety

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Perseverative, ruminative, circumstantial. Content: obsessions, concerns regarding danger.

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Cognition in Axiety

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Intact apart from concentration and attention

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Insight in Axiety

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Impaired as anxiety is fear out of propotion

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Judgement in Axiety

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Impaired

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Appearance in Mania

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Clothing brightly coloured, flamboyant, attention getting and possibly sexually suggestive

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Behaviour in Mania

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Hyperactive, boisterous

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Speech in Mania

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Pressure of speech, loud, rapid, difficult to interpret. May be tangential or circumstantial

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Affect in Mania

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Euphoric, maybe irritable, labile

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Mood in Mania

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Document their mood using the patient’s self report: happy, excited

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Thought in Mania

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Accelerated “flight of ideas”, multiple plans but cannot carry them through to completion. Attention: distractible. Delusions related to wealth, power, abilities

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Perception in Mania

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Mood congruent hallucinations

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Cognition in Mania

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Heightened

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Insight in Mania

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See no need for help “never felt better”

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Judgement in Mania

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Impulsive

30
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Appearance in Psychosis

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Self neglect, unusual combinations, symbolic, eccentric

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Behaviour in Psychosis

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Posturing, catatonia (neurogenic motor immobility), withdrawn, movement disorder secondary to medication

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Speech in Psychosis

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Disorganised, poverty of content, perseveration in catatonia

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Affect in Psychosis

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Blunted, flat, incongruent

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Mood in Psychosis

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Document their mood using the patient’s self report: blunted, flat, incongruent

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Thought in Psychosis

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Loosening of associations, blocking, delusions, thought broadcasting, ideas of reference, magical thinking, concrete thinking

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Perception in Psychosis

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Hallucinations (auditory are common), command, 3rd person

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Cognition in Psychosis

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Memory gaps, false memories (based on delusional beliefs)

38
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Insight in Psychosis

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Impaired

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Judgement in Psychosis

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Impulsive