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Flashcards in Q1 Mental Status Examination Deck (20)
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1
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purpose of DSM V

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  • communication
  • research
  • payment
2
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difference between psychiatric vs medical interview

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  • fact and feeling based exam
  • interview is exam
  • attention to doctor-patient interaction
3
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what is abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state

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  • catatonia
4
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what is the term for what we observe on someone’s face

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  • affect
5
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what is the patient’s description of subjective feeling

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  • mood
6
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what term would describe a very down, low affect

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  • dysphoric
7
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what term would describe a normal level of affect

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  • euthymic
8
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what term would describe an elevated or high affect

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  • euphoric
9
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what term would describe a change in emotions throughout interactions

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  • labile
10
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what is the terminology that describes long-winded answer but eventually returns to answer the original question

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  • circumstantial
11
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what is the terminology that describes when a person responds to question in loosely related way but never fully answers the original question

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  • tangential
12
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what is the terminology that describes the rapid and continuous shifting from one idea to another

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  • flight of ideas
13
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what is the terminology that describes the person responding to rhyming sounds rather than meaning of words

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  • echolalia
14
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what is the terminology that describes the association of ideas and thought patterns that becomes so vague, fragmented, diffuse, and unfocused as to lack any logical sequences or relationship

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  • looseness of association
15
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what is the terminology that describes delusions where the person thinks that things brought up deal with them personally

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  • idea of reference
16
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what is a fixed, false belief

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  • delusion
17
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what are perceptions in the absence of external stimuli

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  • hallucination
18
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what are misperceptions of real external stimulus

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  • illusions
19
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components of mental status exam

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  • mood
  • cognition
  • affect
  • thought content/process
  • perception
  • insight/judgment
  • behavior
  • appearance
  • speech

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20
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what is one tool for cognition

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  • Folstein MMSE