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What are the areas assessed in the MSE? |
1) Appearance and behaviour 2) Speech 3) Mood and affect 4) Thought form and content 5) Perception 6) Cognition 7) Insight |
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What is evaluated in appearance and behaviour? |
Appearance - looks, well kept, age, unwell, features Behaviour - motor activity, eye contact, rapport, body language, inappropriateness |
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What is evaluated in speech? |
Rate, quantity, rhythm, volume, tone, randomness |
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What are mood and affect (+ types)? |
Mood = overall emotional state Affect = change of emotions moment to moment Affect types: reactive = normal flattened = limited reaction blunted = no reaction (psychosis?) labile = elevated reaction |
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What is evaluated in mood and affect? |
Mood = subjective vs objective anxious, depressed, euthymic (normal), elevated |
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What is thought form? |
Pattern of thoughts and their logical connections. If normal = "No formal thought disorder" |
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What is evaluated in thought form? |
Flight of ideas (mania), loosening of associations (schizophrenia) |
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What is evaluated in thought content? |
What are they talking about, any focus, delusions, risk of self-harm |
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What is a delusion and what are the types? |
False fixed belief that is not appropriate for the person. Paranoid = feel like somebody's after you Grandiouse = over-estimate yourself Nihilistic = deny your own existence Contra: over-valued idea = fixed idea causing disability (e.g. anorexia) |
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What is evaluated in perception? |
Disruption in sensory modalities: Hallucination - perception in the absence of stimulus Illusion - false perception of real stimulus |
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What is evaluated in cognition? |
Alertness, orientated, memory, focus * Mini mental state exam is just that? |
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What is evaluated in insight? |
Understanding of their presentation and need for treatment |
