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mental status terminology Flashcards

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consciousness

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the state of wakefulness, awareness, or alertness in which most human beings function while not asleep or one of the recognized stages of normal sleep from which the person can be readily awakened

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alert

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pt aware of the examiner and can respond to the environment around them independently

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depersonalization

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when you persistently or repeatedly have the feeling that you’re observing yourself from outside your body or you have a sense that things around you aren’t real, or both

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mental status

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comprehensive description or statement of a patient’s intellectual capacity, emotional state, and general mental health based on examiner’s observations and directed interview; includes assessment of mood, behavior, orientation, judgment, memory, problem-solving ability, and contact with reality

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orientation

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person’s awareness of self, place, time, and situation

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lethargic

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condition marked by drowsiness and a lack of energy and mental alertness

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ambivalence

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the presence of simultaneous, strong positive or negative attitudes toward a participant, object or situation (entity)

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attention span

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how long you can focus on something or spend on a task before you need a break or get distracted

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attention

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the ability to focus selectively on a selected stimulus, sustaining that focus and shifting it at will

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stuporous

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an excessively deep state of unresponsiveness

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lability

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rapid, often exaggerated changes in mood, where strong emotions or feelings (uncontrollable laughing or crying, or heightened irritability or temper) occur

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recent memory

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“short-term” memory; a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension

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memory

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the ability to recover information about past events or knowledge

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comatose

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in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli

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rage

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state of violent anger

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remote memory

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the ability to recall events from the distant past

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mood

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A pervasive and sustained emotion which can markedly colour one’s perception of the world

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delirium/delirious

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a mental state in which a person is confused and has reduced awareness of their surroundings

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dementia

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the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and reasoning — to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities

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affect

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the patient’s immediate expression of emotion

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glasgow coma scale

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used to objectively describe the extent of impaired consciousness in all types of acute medical and trauma patients. the scale assesses patients according to three aspects of responsiveness: eye-opening, motor, and verbal responses

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suicidal ideation

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a range of contemplations, wishes, and preoccupations with death and suicide

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anxiety

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feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress

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thought process

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the logical connections between thoughts and their relevance to the main thread of conversation

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decorticate

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an abnormal posturing in which a person is stiff with bent arms, clenched fists, and legs held out straight. the arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest

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depression

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a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest

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word salad

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“schizophasia”; “confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases”

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thought content

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describes what the patient is thinking and includes the presence or absence of delusional or obsessional thinking and suicidal or homicidal ideas

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decerebrate

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an abnormal body posture that involves the arms and legs being held straight out, the toes being pointed downward, and the head and neck being arched backward

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obsession

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repeated thoughts, urges, or mental images that cause anxiety

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circumstantiality

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circuitous and non-direct thinking or speech that digresses from the main point of a conversation

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perception

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Awareness of objects; consciousness

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aphasia

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a brain disorder where a person has trouble speaking or understanding other people speaking

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compulsion

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an uncontrollable urge to say or do something without an obvious reason

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echolalia

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a psychiatric disorder that makes someone meaninglessly repeat what another person says

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abstract reasoning

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the ability to calculate, sort, categorize, conceptualize, draw conclusions, or interpret and condense complex ideas

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elation

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a state of heightened joy, exaggerated optimism, and restless excitement

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flight of ideas

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occurs when someone talks quickly and erratically, jumping rapidly between ideas and thoughts

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phobia

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an extreme, irrational, fear of something that may cause a person to panic

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delusion

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a false belief that persists despite evidence proving it false and occurs especially in some mentally disturbed states

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lucid

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thinking clearly again after a period of illness or confusion

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coherent

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consistent; making a logical whole

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deliberate

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to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully

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vague

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a lack of clear formulation due to inadequate conception or consideration

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digresses

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to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument

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confused

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the inability to think as clearly or quickly as you normally d

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disorganized

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psychopathological inconsistency in personality, mental functions, or overt behavior

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language

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the use of a meaningful pattern of vocal sounds (or corresponding written symbols) to convey thoughts and feelings

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blocking

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interruption of a trend of associative thought by the arousal of an opposing trend or through the welling up into consciousness of a complex of unpleasant ideas

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confabulation

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a neuropsychiatric disorder wherein a patient generates a false memory without the intention of deceit

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neologism

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a new word that is coined especially by a person affected with schizophrenia, is meaningless except to the coiner, and is typically a combination of two existing words or a shortening or distortion of an existing word

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circumlocution

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the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea

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perseveration

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the continual involuntary repetition of a thought or behavior

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clanging

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behavior that is situationally inappropriate

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hallucination

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a false perception of objects or events involving your senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste

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illusion

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a perception that occurs when a sensory stimulus is present but is incorrectly perceived and misinterpreted, such as hearing the wind as someone crying

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