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What is mental status
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Person's emotional and cognitive function what's
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What is a mental disorder?
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Significant behavioral or psychological pattern that is associated with distress or disability & has a significant risk of pain, disability or death or loss of freedom
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Organic disorder?
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Due to Brian disease if known specific organic cause ( delirium, dementia, alcohol & drug intoxication& withdrawal)
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Psychiatric mental illness?
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An organic etiology has not yet been established ( anxiety disorder, or schizophrenial)
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Mental status assessment documents....
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A dysfunction and determines how that dysfunction affects self care in everyday life
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Mental status is inferred through assessment of:
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Consciousness, language, mood & effect, orientation, attention, memory, abstract reasoning, thought process, thought content and perception
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What are the four main heading of mental status assessment?
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Appearance, Behavior, Cognition, Thought process
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What is aphasia
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Language disturbance in speaking, writing or understanding
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Delirium
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Acute confusional change or loss of consciousness and perceptual disturbance. May accompany acute illness( pneumonia, alcohol/drug intox) resolved when underlying cause is treated
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Dementia
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Gradual progressive process causing decreased cognitive function. ( person is conscious and is not reversible)
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Thought content
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What the person thinks- specific ideas, beliefs, the use of words
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Thought content
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What the person thinks- specific ideas, beliefs, the use of words
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Thought process
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The way a person thinks, the logical train of thought
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Mini-cog
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Way to assess cognitive function and to detect dementia
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