MSE Flashcards
(37 cards)
Test for ATTENTION SPAN
Serial 7s/3s
Recite months and spell WORLD (then backwards)
Digit span
Test for ORIENTATION
Name
Location, Place, City, Address
Date
Time
Result: patient is oriented to —
Test for MEMORY
Repeat Mango, Table and Chair
Ask after 3 mins for secondary/working memory
Ask procedures (like brushing teeth)
Digit span
Test for INSIGHT/JUDGEMENT
Ask goals
Paraphasia
Unintended syllables or phrases
Neologism
Nonsense new words
Dysarthria
Impaired speech
Difficulty in articulation
Aphasia
Language impairment
BROCA’s APHASIA (expressive aphasia)
May comprehension
Impaired fluency and repetition and naming
WERNICKE’s APHASIA (receptive aphasia)
Fluent
No comprehension
Impaired rep
Impaired naming
GLOBAL APHASIA
All is impaired (fluency, comprehen, rep, naming)
TRANSCORTICAL MOTOR APHASIA
Goods lahat but no fluency
Conduction aphasia
Goods fluency and comprehension
But impaired rep and naming
APRAXIA
inability to follow a MOTOR command but it is not a primary motor deficit but a higher order planning and conceptualization)
Anosognosia
Neglect of a disability. Double Simultaneously stimulation of affected area.
test for both limbs
ASOmatognosia
Deny ownership
COMPREHENSION TEST
3 step command
Ideomotor apraxia
Deficit in planning
Brush teeth, comb hair
Ideational/conceptual apraxia
Impaired sequencing of multistep actions
Buccofacial apraxia
Inability to pucker lips, whistle, or blow a match
Limb kinetic apraxi
Unable to grasp objects, raise arm, put finger to nose, right hand to left ear
Constructional apraxia
Inability to draw intersecting shapes and configurations
Diamond, cube
Gait apraxia
Shuffling gait,
Hard time starting walking
Dressing apraxia
Can’t dress appropriately