Week 4: Mental Status/Neurological Assessment Flashcards
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Mental Status Definition: Abstract Reasoning
Represents as person’s ability to solve problems, identify patterns, and work with logical systems.
Mental Status Definition: Affect
The displaying of emotions
Mental Status Definition: Appearance
Overall visual appearance including how they are dressed, their body movements and posture, their facial expressions, and their overall hygiene
Mental Status Definition: Attention
Notice take of someone or something, giving focus to something in particular
Mental Status Definition: Behaviour
The way one acts or conducts themselves
Mental Status Definition: Cognition
Level of thinking and understanding through thought, experience, and senses
Mental Status Definition: Consciousness
The state of being awake and aware of one’s surroundings
Mental Status Definition: Judgement
The ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions
Mental Status Definition: Memory
The ability to recall events that have occurred/are going to happen or recall information from various time frames (immediate, recent/24 hours, remote)
Mental Status Definition: Mood
The displaying of various emotions/feelings often influenced by events or surrounding environment
Mental Status Definition: Orientation
Knowing the relative position of something or someone, direction or physical position
Mental Status Definition: Perception
The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through senses
Mental Status Definition: Thinking
The process of using one’s mind to consider or reason about something
Mental Status Definition: Thought Process
The accepting, processing, and analyzing of information and thoughts
Neurological Assessment Definition: Aphasia
A language disorder that affects how you communicate
Mental Status Definition: Ataxia
Poor muscle control that causes clumsy movements, balance, walking, hand coordination, speech, and swallowing.
Mental Status Definition: Atrophy
The partial or complete shrinking of a body part, organ, cell, or tissue
Mental Status Definition: Dysarthria
Difficulty forming words/slurred or slow speech
Mental Status Definition: Dysphagia
Difficulty swallowing
Mental Status Definition: Glascow Coma Scale
The scale used to describe the extent of impaired consciousness in all types of acute medical and trauma patients, ranging 3 -15, 3 being unconscious, and 15 being fully awake
Mental Status Definition: Muscle Paresis
A condition in which muscle movement has become weakened or impaired
Mental Status Definition: Neurological Recheck Canadian Neurological Scale
A simple and validated score to assess stroke severity
Mental Status Definition: Nystagmus
Back-and-forth oscillation of the eyes
Mental Status Definition: Paraestheia
Abnormal sensation such as tingling, burning