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It covers cooperation, speech rate/volume/fluency, emotions with mood and affect descriptors, and multiple thought form patterns such as blocking, racing thoughts, loose associations, and tangentiality. 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Examples: sad, happy, angry, anxious.\nAffect:  Outward manifestation of mood.  How the patient shows his feelings.\nPredominant\nIntensity\nLability\nAppropriateness\nThought\nProcess or Form:  Associations.   How ideas fit together, including rate and flow.\nPoverty of thought – few thoughts\nBlocking – inability to form thoughts\nRacing thoughts, flight of ideas – rapid thoughts\nLoose associations – disconnected thoughts\nCircumstantiality – lots of extra details but gets to point\nTangentiality – connections between thoughts may be apparent, but question is never answered\nContent:  what is being thought\nDelusions – fixed, false beliefs\nIdeas (or Delusions) of reference – belief that some often unimportant event is related specifically to the patient\nThought insertion or withdrawal – belief that thoughts are being taken out of or put into head\nThought broadcasting – belief that others can hear thoughts\nObsessions – distracting, persistent thoughts\nCompulsions – irresistible urges to perform meaningless tasks\nPhobias – irrational fears of specific things\nPerceptions:\nIllusions:  Misinterpretated sensory inputs\nHallucinations:  Perceiving input in absence of external sensory stimulation\nVisual\nAuditory\nOlfactory\nGustatory\nTactile (Haptic)\nHypnagogic – hallucinations as patient falls asleep or awakens\nDissociative States\nDepersonalization – feeling that one is not oneself\nDerealization – feeling that the world, people and things around are not real\nSensorium and intellectual (cognitive) functions (see attached table)\nLevel of consciousness\nOrientation\nConcentration/Attention\nMemory\nImmediate (new learning)\nRecent\nRemote\nUse of Language\nComprehension\nRepetition\nNaming\nReading\nWriting\nFund of knowledge\nAbstractions\nInsight\nJudgment","cbCairiZryY9gD2H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairiZryY9gD2H","doc",160768,"English","# Appearance and Behavior\n## Speech, Mood, and Affect\n# Thought and Perception\n## Thought content and delusions\n## Perceptions and hallucinations\n# Sensorium and Intellectual Functions\n## Level of consciousness and orientation\n## Attention, memory, language, and insight","[{\"question\":\"What does the Psychiatric Mental Status Exam (MSE) outline assess first?\",\"answer\":\"It starts with appearance and behavior, including dressing, grooming, posture and gait, facial expression, eye contact, motor activity, mannerisms, cooperation, and how the patient makes the examiner feel.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the outline describe mood and affect?\",\"answer\":\"Mood is the patient’s pervasive maintained emotional state, sometimes documented in the patient’s own words, while affect is the outward manifestation of mood, described by predominance, intensity, lability, and appropriateness.\"},{\"question\":\"Which cognitive domains are included in the MSE outline?\",\"answer\":\"It includes level of consciousness, orientation, concentration/attention, and memory (immediate/new learning, recent, and remote), along with language functions, fund of knowledge, abstractions, insight, and judgment.\"}]","Psychiatric Mental Status Exam (MSE) Outline - Template | DOC"]