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mental status exam pg 142

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
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Personal info   age,sex,marital status, religion, race, ethnicity, employment, living arrangements  
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Appearance:   grooming and dress,level of hygiene,pupil dilation/constriction, facial expression, height,weight, nutritional status, body piercings,scars, tattoos, relationship between age and appearance  
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Behavior   excessive/reduced/peculiar body movements (scanning of environment,odd or repetitive gestures,LOC,balance/gait) abnormal movmnts (tardive,tremors etc, level of eye contact  
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speech   rate, volume, disturbances (articulation problems, slurring, stuttering, mumbling), cluttering (rapid, disorganized, tongue-tied speech)  
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Affect and mood   affect (flat, bland, animated, angry, withdrawn, appropriate to context) mood (sad, labile, euphoric)  
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Thought   Thought process (disorganized, coherent, flight of ideas, neologisms, thought blocking, circumstantiality) Thought content (delusions, obsessions, suicidal thought  
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perceptual disturbances   hallucinations (auditory, visual, tactile). Illusions  
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cognition   Orientation X3, LOC (alert, confused, clouded, stuporous, unconscious, comatose). Memory(remote, recent,immed) fund of knowledge, attention (performance on serial sevens, digit span test)  
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cognition continued   Abstraction (performance on test involving similarities/proverbs), insight, judgment  
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