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Mental Status Exam

Terms and concepts

TermDefinition
1st grouping appearance and behavior
2nd grouping attitude, mood, and affect
2rd grouping speech, disturbances, thought
4th grouping orientation, concentration, alertness, and memory
5th grouping abstract and intelligence
6th grouping impulse, judgement, insight, and impulse
flight of ideas fast speech that has understandable associations between topics
derailment aka loosening of association; ideas go off track with no relation
blocking interruption in the train of thought
circumstantiality includes irrelevant details and parenthetical comments but go back to main point
tangentiality looses thread and pursues irrelevant ideas but doesn't go back to main point
word salad complete incoherent connection of thought
clanging associations associations by rhyming
neologisms new words created by combination of words
obsessions intrusive and repetitive
compulsions things done over and over, repetitive
recent memory what they ate for breakfast
immediate memory repeating digits
recent past memory important events
remote memory childhood information
labile fluctuating moods
euthymic normal mood
global aphasia loss ability to communicate
orientation person, place, time
Created by: juliannelh24
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