Mental Status Examination.docx

Mental Status Examination 1. 2. a) b) 3. a) b) 4. a) 5. a) 6. a) 7. a) 8. a) 9. a) b) c) 10. a) 11. a) b) c)

General Appearance, Attitude towards interview/ testing Affect Full/ Broad -> Flat/ Blunted Congruent or Incongruent Mood Depressed/ Dysphoric -> Euthymic Normal -> Elated/ Euphoric Labile Thought Form Logical -> Circumstantial -> Tangential -> Loose Association -> Flight of Ideas Attention Distractible or Preoccupied or Rumination Speed of Thought Latent or Racing Memory Anterograde (past memories, after onset) or Retrograde (current event, before onset of amnesia) or Intact (Long Term/ Short term) Motor Catatonic -> Psychomotor retardation->Relaxed/ Normal-> Restless/Hyperactive -> Agitated Speech Laconic->Controlled/ Regular Rate -> Pressured Speech Organized -> Disorganized (flight of ideas) Coprolalia (Tourette’s) or Echolalia (Autism) Interpersonal Contempt (sarcasm/mockery) or Defensive or Dismissive or Guarded or Hypervigilant (Anxiety, Persecutory) or Oppositional/ Defiant or Suggestible/ Easily Influenced Psychosis Delusions (Bizzare, Control, Grandeur, Infidelity, Persecution, Reference, Erotomanic) Responds to Internal Stimuli Hallucinations (5 senses)