Specific Mental Fx
Control of Content of thought, awareness of reality vs. delusions, logical and coherent thought.
What is thought?
Orientation to person, place, time, self and others.
What is Orientation?
Quality of vision, visual acuity, and visual field functions to promote visual awareness of the environment at various distances.
What are visual functions?
Postural reactions, body adjustment reactions, supporting reactions.
What are involuntary movement reactions?
Rate, rhythm, and depth of respiration
What is Respiratory systems function?
Discrimination of sensations (e.g.auditory, tactile, visual, olfactory, gustatory, vestibular, and proprioceptive.
What is perception?
State of awareness and alertness, including the clarity and continuity of the wakeful state.
What is consciousness?
sensation related to position, balance and secure movement against gravity.
What is vestibular functon?
Maintenance of structural integrity of joints throughout the body: physiological stability of joints related to structural integrity.
What is Joint Stability?
What is Cardiovascular system functions, Hematological and Immunological system functions?
Sustained shifting and divided attention, concentration and distractibility.
What is attention?
What is energy and drive?
Bitterness, sweetness, sourness and saltiness
What are taste functions?
Degree of muscle tension (i.e. flaccidity, spasticity, fluctuation)
What is muscle tone?
Fluency and Rhythm, alternative vocalization functions
What are voice and speech functions
Judgement, concept formation, metacognition, executive functions, praxis, cognitive flexibility, insight
What are the higher level cognitive functions?
What is sleep?
Sound detection and discrimination; awareness of location and distance of sounds.
What are hearing functions?
Eye-hand and eye-foot coordination, bilateral integration, crossing of the midline, fine and gross motor, and oculomotor function (i.e. saccades, pursuits, accommodation, binocularity).
What control of voluntary movement?
Urinary functions, genital and reproductive functions.
What are genitourinary and reproductive functions?
Mental functions that regulate the speed, response, quality and time of motor production, such as restlessness, toe tapping, or hand wringing, in response to inner tension.
What is mental functions of sequencing complex movement?
Extroversion, introversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience, self control, self expression, confidence, motivation, impulse control and appetite.
What is temperament and personality?
Awareness of body and space.
What is proprioception?
Involuntary contraction of muscles automatically induced by specific stimuli (i.e. stretch, asymmetrical tonic neck, symmetrical tonic neck)
What are motor reflexes?
Protection (presence or absence of wounds, cuts or abrasions), repair (would healing)
What are skin and hair and nail functions