Term
| components of mental status exam |
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Definition
1. appearance, attitude, activity
2. mood and affect
3. speech and language
4. thought form
5. thought content
6. perception
7. cognition
8. insight and judgment |
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Term
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Definition
1. a person's predominant internal feeling state at a given time
2. what the patient states |
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Term
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Definition
1. the external and dynamiac manifestation of a person's internal emotional state
2. what the clinician observes |
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Term
| what to consider about affect |
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Definition
1. appropriateness
2. intensity
3. mobility
4. range
5. reactivity |
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Term
| what to consider in speech and language |
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Definition
1. loudness
2. rate
3. spontaneity
4. amount
5. articulation
6. quality
7. prosody (emotional quality)
8. semantics (actual content)
9. aphasias |
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Term
| spectrum of organization in thought form |
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Definition
| circumstantial->tangential->flight of ideas->loosening of associations->word salad |
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Term
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Definition
1. orientation to person, place, time
2. attention and concentration
3. registration and short-term memory
4. long-term memory
5. construction and visuospatial ability
6. abstraction and conceptualization |
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Term
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Definition
| alert->drowsy/lethargic->stupor->coma |
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