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Symposium 1 - Hx taking and MSE Flashcards

1
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What are the two main components of psychiatric history taking?

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Collection of clinical data

Intuitive understanding of patient (empathy, descriptive psychopathology)

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List important factors for the setting of a psychiatric exam.

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Privacy
Avoid interruptions 
Easy exit 
Informal setting 
Avoid barriers
Respect personal space
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When would a past psychiatric history be taken in a history?

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Before past medical and after HPC

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Along with psychiatric history, what else is added to a normal history?

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Personal history

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What is included in a personal history?

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Developmental milestones
Schooling/education 
Occupational history 
Relationships 
Pre-morbid personality
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What is a formal and informal patient?

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Informal - there on own behalf i.e voluntary

Formal - not on own behalf i.e involuntary

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How can you ask about psychotic symptoms?

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“Have you seen or heard anything that other people are not aware of?”

“Have you heard anyone talking when there was nobody there?”

“What do you this is causing them?”

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What do you want to know about past psychiatric history?

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Past episodes/diagnoses/contact s
Previous Rx
Inter-episode functioning 
Previous hospital admissions
Attempted suicide/repeated DSH
Previous detentions
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What is important of a family history in a psychiatric exam?

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Age, employment, circumstances, health problems, quality of relationship

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What do you want to know about with regards to social history?

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Employment 
Current financial situation 
Stressors
Alcohol/drugs/smoking 
Relationships
Children
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What will you ask about in relation to drugs/alcohol?

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Regular/intermittent, amount, pattern, dependence, withdrawal symptoms, impact on work/relationships/money/police

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What do you want to know with regards to forensic history?

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Contact with police
Offences
Recidivism
Violent and sexual crimes

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What is pre-morbid personality?

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Emphasis on consistent patterns of behaviour, interaction, mood.

“How would your best friend describe you?”

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What are the 10 points to consider in a mental state examination?

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  • Appearance
  • Behaviour
  • Beliefs
  • Cognitive function
  • Insight
  • Mood
  • Percepts
  • Speech
  • Suicide
  • Thoughts
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What do you consider with regards to appearance?

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Height/build
Clothing
Personal hygiene
Make-up/jewellery

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What do you consider with regards to behaviour?

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Greeting
Non-verbal cues
gesturing 
Abnormal movements 
Cooperative
Rapport
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What do you consider with regards to mood?

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Eye contact
Affect
Mood rating
Psychomotor unction - retarded agitation

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What do you consider with regards to speech?

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Spontaneity
Volume
Rate
Rhythm 
Tone
Dysarthia
Dysphasia
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What do you consider with regards to abnormal thoughts ?

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Phobias
Obsessions
Flight of ideas
Formal thought disorders

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What is formal thought disorder and what is it associated with abnormal thoughts?

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Schizophrenia

Broadcast, echo, insertion, block, withdrawal

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What is delusional belief/intensity?

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Unshakeable/fixed/can’t be persuaded from it

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What is formal thought disorder and what is it associated with abnormal percepts?

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Illusions
Hallucinations
Auditory/visual/somatic/olfactory/gustatory domains

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What is formal thought disorder and what is it associated with suicide/homicide?

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Suicidal thoughts
Ideation
Intent
Plans

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How do you assess cognitive function?

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Orientation (time, place person)
Attention/concentration
Short term memory

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If concerns about cognitive function, what detailed assessments are available?

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MSQ, MMSE, MOCA, FAS, Clock drawing, executive function tests

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What 3 questions would you ask a patient with regards to insight?

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  1. Are symptoms due to illness?
  2. Is this mental illness?
  3. Do they agree with treatment/Mx plan?
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27
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Patient J is an informal (voluntary) emergency admission from GP with sever depression, suicidal ideation and alcohol misuse. List 3 areas to be explored in HPC.

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Mood problem; depression
Suicidal thinking
Alcohol

28
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What psychiatric symptoms are associated with hypothyroid and hyperthyroid?

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Hyper = manic symptoms

Hypo = psuedodepression

29
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What is psychopathology?

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Symptoms and signs you are finding

30
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What is descriptive psychopathology?

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Describes and categorises the abnormal experience as described by the patient

31
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What is phenomenology?

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Observation and understanding of psychological event or phenomenon so the observer knows as much as possible how patient feels.

32
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What is SCAN used in a present sate examination?

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Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry

33
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What should you think about if visual symptoms?

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Organic causes

34
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What should risk assessments include in a mental state examination?

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Suicide/homicide

35
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When should you do a mental state examination?

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During history taking

36
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What does responding to unseen stimuli suggest?

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Hallucinations

37
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What is catatonia?

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Abnormality of movement and behaviour arising from a disturbed mental state. It may involve repetitive or purposeless overactivity, or catalepsy, resistance to passive movement, and negativism.

Forced grasping
Waxy flaccidity 
Opposition 
Increased resistance
Negativism including eversion
38
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What treatment is given for catatonia?

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Benzodiazepines

39
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What is monosyllabic responses and whispers almost diagnostic of?

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depression

40
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What is mood?

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Subjective patient’s account

41
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What is affect?

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How emotion conveys normally e.g anxiety, anger, euphoria

42
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Loose thoughts is linked to what?

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Manic

43
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What 4 sections can be associated with thinking?

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  1. Speed and tempo of thoughts
  2. Types of thoughts demonstrated
  3. Linkage and thought form
  4. Possession of thoughts
44
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What thinking speed would you see in severe depression?

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Psychomotor retardation p decreased sleep

45
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What are potential causes of slowing thought with limited content termed “poverty” of thought?

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Schizophrenia

Dementia

46
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List different types of thoughts displayed at MSE?

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Preoccupations
Phobias
Obsessions
Delusions
Overvalued ideas
47
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What is the difference between primary and secondary delusions?

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Primary delusions arise from disorders e.g being pursued by CIA

Secondary delusions = Comes out of something e.g someone speaking to you in the car and you begin to decide they have inserted a chip in your ear.

48
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What is a delusion?

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“Unshakeable idea or belief which is out of keeping with person’s social and cultural background; it is held with extraordinary conviction.”

49
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Give examples of delusions.

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Grandiose
Paranoid
Hypochondriacal
Self referential

50
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A patient presents with delusional perception. What is this and what is it a sign of?

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Real perception then sudden delusional belief

Sign of schizophrenia

51
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What is Nihilistic delusion?

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Guilt, rotting, being dead - everything is terrible

52
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Give an example of a persecutory delusion screening questioning?

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Is anyone deliberately trying to harm you?

53
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How do you differentiate partial or full delusions?

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Ask “even when you seem to be most convinced, do you really feel in the back of your mind that it may not be true?”

54
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How is a formal thought disorder described specifically?

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Thought blocking 
Fusion 
Loosening associations 
Tangential thinking 
Derailment of thought or knights move thinking
55
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What abnormal possession of thoughts is associated with schizophrenia?

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Thought blocking, thought insertion and withdrawal, thought broadcasting

56
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List three classes of perceptual disturbance?

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Hallucinations
Pseudohallucinations
Illusions

57
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What is the difference between illusion and hallucinations?

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Illusion = perception in presence of stimulus misperceived

Hallucinations = perception in absence of stimulus, not willed or controlled

58
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What senses can hallucinations occur in?

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Auditory or visual
Tactile
Olfactory and gustatory

59
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What is the difference between hypnopompic and hypnagogic?

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Hypnopompic on awakening

Hypnagogic before falling asleep

60
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How can you test short term memory?

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name 3 objects or name and address

61
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How can you test long term history?

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Personal history

62
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List objective tests.

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MSQ
MOCA
MMSE
FAS
Clock drawing 
Executive function tests
63
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Would you give someone a dementia diagnosed if you think they are depressed?

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NO

Treat depression first

64
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What three questions can indicate place on the spectrum of insight?

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  1. Do you think you are ill?
  2. If you are ill is it a mental illness?
  3. If you are ill and it is a mental illness do you agree broadly with the current treatment plan?
65
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What does ‘formulating the case’ mean?

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Allows consideration of the diagnosis in the context of the individual’s particular personal and medical history

Organic, social and psychological factors are assessed as either predisposing, precipitating or perpetuating factors

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