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| Personality disorders, mental retardation |
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| General medical conditions |
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| Psychosocial and environmental problems |
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| Global assessment of functioning |
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Schizophrenia
Bipolar disorder
Panic disorder
(are all considered an illness not a maladaptive behavior) |
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Comprises personality disorders and mental retardation
Maladaptive personality traits and behavior problems |
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| Primarily records medical problems relevant to the ongoing treatment of a patient |
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Examples:
Glaucoma requiring antidepressants
Asthma in patients with anxiety requiring anti-anxiety medications
AIDS in a patient with new-onset psychosis (brain lesions)
Cirrhosis of the liver in a patient with alcohol dependence |
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Records psychosocial stressors encountered by the patient within the previous 12 months contributing to:
Development of a new mental disorder
Recurrence of a previous mental disorder
Exacerbation of an ongoing mental disorder |
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Records the patient’s global level of functioning:
Both at the time of evaluation and during the past year
Clinician consults the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale to determine the level of functioning
GAF is based on 0-100 scale |
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| Uses psychological, social, and occupational component to determine assessment of function |
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| Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) |
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| Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)scale based off the |
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| Doctors opinion The higher the score the better |
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| Mental illness is not classed in the same method as physical illness because: |
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Hard measures are much more difficult
Definitive diagnosis become elusive |
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| The DSM Can be viewed as: |
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Close-minded
Reductionistic
Fixed |
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| Mental status is the total expression of a person’s |
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Emotional response
Mood
Cognitive function
Personality |
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| Menatal status is closely linked to the individual’s executive functioning such as |
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| Motivation, initiative, goal formation, planning and performing, self-monitoring, and integration feedback |
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| Frontal lobe functions in |
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Speech formation (broca area)
Emotions
Affect (emotional tone, dull, flat)
Drive
Awareness of self
Short-term memory
Goal-oriented behavior |
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| Parietal Lobe functions in |
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| Temporal Lobe functions in |
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Perception and interpretation of sounds (and determination of the source)
Wernicke speech area (comprehension of written and spoken language)
Integration of behavior, emotion, and personality
Long-term memory |
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Survival behaviors – mating, aggression, fear, affection
Reactions to emotions, and expression of affect is mediated by connections of the limbic system and the frontal lobe |
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| Dementia is a clinical syndrome, characterized by |
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| deteriorating cognition, behavior, and functional independence |
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| nutritional and nervous system |
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| Delirium is different than dementia in that it is |
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| an acute confusional state accompanied by a disorder of perception |
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| Symptoms for delirium include: |
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Alterations in mental status
Attention span
Sleep patterns
affect |
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| Major Components of the MSE |
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Appearance
Motor
Speech
Affect
Thought Content
Thought Process
Perception
Intellect
Insight |
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Age
Gender
Race
Body build
Posture
Eye contact
all fall under this cat. of MSE |
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Hesitancy
Agitation
Abnormal movements
Gait
Catatonia (not moving, speaking, or talking
all fall under this cat. of MSE |
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Rate
Rhythm
Volume
Amount
Articulation
Spontaneity
all fall under this cat. of MSE |
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Stability
Range
Appropriateness
Intensity
Affect
Mood
all fall under this cat. of MSE |
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Suicidal ideation
Death wishes
Homicidal ideation
Depressive cognition
Obsessions
Phobias
Paranoid ideation
Ruminations pondering (thoughts that can’t be let go)
Magical ideation (bizarre linking of outcomes)
Delusions
Overvalued ideas
all fall under this cat. of MSE |
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Associations (can’t stay on tract)
Coherence
Logic
Stream (are they able to logically put together a process of thoughts, or do they tell you everything they are thinking)
Clang associations
i.e. frog/dog
Perservation
Uncontrollable repetition of a response, word, phrase, gesture
Neologism
Invention of new words
Blocking (find their own thoughts disturbing)
Attention
all fall under this cat. of MSE |
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| Thought Process (how they think of these thoughts) |
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Hallucinations
Illusions (self referancing things in your environment)
Depersonalization (talk about self in 3rd person)
Derealization
Déjà vu
Jamais vu – it’s new every time
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Global impression
Average
Above average
Below average
describes |
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Awareness of illness
describes their |
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Orientation
Immediate and short term memory
Concentration
Arithmetic ability
Language
Praxis (learning) |
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Inability to recognize and identify familiar objects or persons
Difficulty recognizing geometric features |
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Defect or loss of expressive ability
Speech
Writing
Signs
Inability to comprehend spoken or written language |
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| Inability to make learned coordinated movements, example folding a piece of paper in half |
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| Include the MMSE in the ________ section of your narrative history |
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| Usefulness of the MSE & MMSE limited by |
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Age over 60
Education less than 9th grade
Cultural experiences
Low socioeconomic status |
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| Traditional threshold for the MMSE: |
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Alcohol abuse
are found in |
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imaging provides a measure of regional blood flow (like a more specific bone scan)
utilized to assess brain FUNCTION |
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| Single emission computed tomography (SPECT) |
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imaging provides a measure of metabolic activity by marking glucose utilization
utilized to assess brain FUNCTION |
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| positron emission tomography (PET) |
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Most commonly utilized advanced imaging procedures in the mental health field (an in neurology):
Can assess brain STRUCTURE |
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Computed tomography (CT)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) |
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| provides an instantaneous, localized measure of electrophysiological activity of the brain |
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| Electroencephalography (EEG) |
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Dementia
structural assessment of atrophy |
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Dementia
blood flow patterns may identify Alzheimer's disease |
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Dementia
characteristic increase in slow wave activity in dementia |
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Tumor
useful to assess tumor vascularization |
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Tumor
may reveal focal slowing |
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Parkinson’s disease
useful after infraction |
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Parkinson’s disease
may identify early ischemic changes before CT and MRI |
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Parkinson’s disease
identified characteristic defects in neuroanatomy |
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Parkinson’s disease
identifies decreased uptake of F-DOPA |
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