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The sum total of the examiner’s observations and impressions of the psychiatric patient at the time of interview. Includes:

  1. Appearance
  2. Overt Behavior (mannerisms, tics, gestures)
  3. Attitude
  4. Speech
  5. Mood and affect
  6. Thinking (form, content)
  7. Perceptions
  8. Sensorium (Alertness, Orientation, Concentration, Memory, Calculations, Fund of knowledge, Abstract reasoning)
  9. Insight
  10. Judgment
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Mental Status Examination

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task-based computerized assessment of attention disorders and neurological functioning

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Continuous Performance Test (CPT)

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inattention

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omission errors

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impulsivity

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commission errors

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(Mental age/chronological age) x 100

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IQ test

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Measures physical functioning in premature & full-term newborns and can be used to predict the likelihood of survival: Scale of 0-2 for 5 categories:

  1. Heartbeat
  2. Respiration
  3. Muscle tone
  4. Color of body & extremities
  5. Reflexes
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Apgar Test

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EEG waveform of deepest, non-REM sleep (stage 3/4)

lowest frequency & highest amplitude

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Delta

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EEG waveform of alert, active mental concentration
eyes open
highest frequency & lowest amplitude
REM sleep

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Beta

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EEG waveform of alert but eyes closed

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Alpha

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EEG waveform of light sleep (stage 1)

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theta

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on EEG: high-frequency spike clusters which represent periodic burst of activity: activity of thalamic and cortical neurons

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sleep spindles

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20-30 mg/dL slowed motor performance & decreased thinking
30-80 mg/dL increases in motor and cognition problems
80-200 mg/dL increases in coordination & judgment errors
200-300 mg/dL nystagmus, marked blurred speech, and alcoholic blackouts
> 300 mg/dL impaired vital signs & possible death

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Blood alcohol levels

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used to monitor the severity of anxiety or depression and scored from 0-4 with a total score >9 considered borderline pathology.

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Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D)

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20 item report scale for self-rating for depression
normal score: 34 or less
depressed: 50 or more

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Zung Scale

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used to indicate overall judgment of the functioning of a family or other ongoing relationship on a hypothetical continuum of competent, optimal, disrupted and dysfunctional. Includes:
1. problem solving
2. organization
3. emotional climate
81-100 is satisfactory
61-80 somewhat unsatisfactory
41-60 dysfunction with occasional competence
21-40 seriously dysfunctional
1-20 too dysfunctional to retain continuity of contact

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Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF)

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pervasive and sustained emotion that colors the person’s perception of the world

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mood

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patient’s present emotional responsiveness, inferred from patient’s facial expression, including amount and range of expressive behavior

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affect

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feeling of bugs crawling on or under the skin; associated with cocaine use

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formication

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time, place and person

impairment occurs in this order and clears in reverse order

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orientation

20
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degree of awareness and understanding about being ill

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insight

21
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most widely used intelligence test in clinical practice
WAIS-III is for age 16-89
WISC-III is for age 5-15
IQ 120+ is superior
IQ 90-110 is normal
IQ 50-70 mild MR
IQ below 20-25 is profound MR
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Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

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assesses abstract reasoning and flexibility in problem solving by sorting cards into groups
Abnormal responses seen in damage to frontal lobes, the caudate & schizophrenia

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Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)

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test used to track changes in patient’s cognitive state
30 points possible
score below 25 suggests impairment

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Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)

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test that gives the location and effects of specific brain lesions
uniform profile of scores
takes considerable time to perform

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Halstead-Reitan

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short scale used to measure the severity of psychiatric symptomology
most useful for patients with significant impairment
used as outcome measure for studies of schizophrenia

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Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)

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most widely used objective personality assessment instrument

self-report inventory

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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defensive mechanism where facts or logical implications of external reality are refused recognition in favor of internally generated wish-fulfilling fantasies

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denial

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distortions of real images or sensations

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illusion

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not based on real images or sensations

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hallucination

30
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acute onset of fluctuating cognitive impairment and disturbance of consciousness

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delirium

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progressive impairment of cognitive functions occurring in clear consciousness

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dementia

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Presence of depressed mood that lasts most of the day and is present almost continuously (at least 2 years)

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dysthymia

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ingestion of nonnutritive substances such as dirt, clay, starch, sand and feces
mostly seen in young children and in pregnant African American women in rural South

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pica

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the physiological wear and tear on the body that results from ongoing adaptive efforts to maintain stability (homeostasis) in response to both physiological and psychological stressors

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allosteric load

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test which can identify dyslexia and dyscalculia, as well as hemispheric dominance

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Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery

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battery of tests for adults

  • verbal paired associate and paragraph retention
  • visual memory for designs, orientation, digit span, rote recall of the alphabet, counting backward
  • yields a memory quotient, adjusted for age
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Wechsler Memory Scale

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test used to report a clinician’s judgment of a patient’s overall level of functioning & decide on a treatment plan

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Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF)

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test for attentional capacity

age 8 to adult

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Trail Making Test

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