MSE MMSE

Question 1

10 components of MSE

Answer 1

ABS AMT PCIJ (ABS MAT PCIJ)
Appearance
Behaviour
Speech

Affect
Mood
Thought

Perception
Cognition
Insight
Judgment

Question 2

A way of describing how you think the patient is feeling right now

Answer 2

Affect

Question 3

6 things to look for in Affect?

QIRMRC

Answer 3

Quality
Intensity
Range
Mobility
Reactivity
Congruence

Question 4

3 things in Thought

Answer 4

Stream
Form
Content

Question 5

Types of formal thought disorders

Answer 5

Loosening of associations (Tangentiality, Derailment)
Clang associations
Flight of ideas
Circumstantiality
Perseveration

Question 6

When the point is gradually lost as the patient speaks

Answer 6

Tangentiality

Question 7

Sentences make sense but are not connected between them.

Answer 7

Derailment

Question 8

Sentences are linked to the next one but the point rapidly shifts each time. Seen in mania

Answer 8

Flight of ideas

Question 9

Providing way too much irrelvant detail but eventually returning to the point

Answer 9

Anxiety

Question 10

Keeps returning to same theme

Answer 10

Perseveration

Question 11

Blunted affect with restricted range

Answer 11

schizophrenia

Question 12

Flat affect with restricted range

Answer 12

Severe depression

Question 13

Thoughts associated by the sound of words rather than by their meaning e.g. rhyming or assonance

Answer 13

Clang associations

Question 14

Flight of ideas, pressured speech

Answer 14

Mania

Question 15

An object is there to trigger this visual thing but it is ALWAYS correctable

Answer 15

Illusion

Question 16

An actual perception is misinterpreted as something else AND not easily corrected

Answer 16

Misinterpretation/Misidentification

Question 17

A sense that a feeling, thought or action is being forced upon by the person

Answer 17

Passivity phenomenon

Question 18

A person’s sense that something is “not” right with themselves

Answer 18

Depersonalisation

Question 19

A person’s sense that something is “not” right with their surroundings

Answer 19

Derealisation

Question 20

All the characteristics of a normal perception but it’s NOT ACTUALLY THERE

Answer 20

Hallucination

Question 21

types of hallucinations

Answer 21

auditory
visual
olfactory
tactile
gustatory
somatic

Question 22

Thoughts not perceived to be the person’s own that have been inserted, removed etc

Answer 22

Thought alienation

Question 23

Abhorrent (ego-dystonic) and inescapable thoughts

Answer 23

Obsessions

Question 24

Actions performed in response to obsessions, generally temporarily reducing the associated anxiety

Answer 24

Compulsions

Question 25

Thoughts held with absolute conviction, that are fixed, poorly substantiated, not understandable from the person's background

Answer 25

Delusions

Question 26

Delusions that are inconsistent with the patient's mood

Answer 26

Mood incongruent delusion

Question 27

the false belief that irrelevant occurrences or details directly relate to oneself

Answer 27

Ideas of reference