Mental Status Examination

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Mental Status Examination
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Components of Mental Status Examination

• Appearance
• Behavior
• psychomotor (agitation, restlessness)
• face
• speech
• Affect/Mood
• labile
• flat, blunted, elation
• inappropriate

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• Perceptions
• Illusions
• Hallucinations (5 senses)
• Sensorium

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Thinking

• Intellectual Functioning
• abstraction, attention, concentration
• Orientation (X3)
• person, place, time
• Memory
• Insight
• Judgment

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• Thought Content
• delusions
• obsessions
• Thought Processes
• loosened associations
• derailment
• circumstantiality