Movement disorders which include any number of repetitive, involuntary, and purposeless body or facial movements
What are dyskinesias?
100
Include assessment of ADLs, nutritional status, hygiene and dress and eye contact.
What is general appearance assessment?
100
A disturbance of thinking shown by speech in which ideas shift from one subject to another that is unrelated or minimally related to the first.
What is loose association?
100
A recurrent and persistent thought, impulse, or image experienced as intrusive and distressing.
What are obsessions?
100
A hallucination involving sight, which may consist of formed images.
What are visual hallucinations?
200
A dyskinesia that occurs after long-term treatment with an antipsychotic medication. Sometimes the condition may become permanent.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
200
Includes assessment of level of activity, facial expressions and movements, attitude and behavior and speech.
What is psychomotor assessment?
200
The sudden inability to finish a thought, or to recall what the thought was.
What is interruptions/blocking of thoughts?
200
A persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity or situation that results in a compelling desire to avoid it.
What are phobias?
200
A misperception or misinterpretation of a real external stimulus.
What are illusions?
300
An extreme form of internal or external restlessness.
What is akathisia?
300
Includes assessment of thoughts, perceptions, delusions, phobias, obsessions and compulsions.
What is thoughts/perceptions assessment?
300
The fabrication of stories in response to questions about situations or events that are not recalled.
What is confabulation?
300
Repetitive ritualistic behavior such as hand washing or ordering or mental acts such as repeating words silently that aims to prevent or reduce distress or prevent some dreaded event or situation.
What are compulsions?
300
Type of thinking that includes voluntarily shifting one's mindset from a specific aspect of a situation to the general aspect.
What is abstract thinking?
400
A muscle tension disorder involving very strong muscle contractions. These uncontrollable muscle contractions can cause unusual twisting of parts of the body, especially the neck.
What is dystonia?
400
Includes assessment of orientation, concentration, intelligence, insight, judgment, memory and abstract thinking.
What is sensorium/cognition assessment?
400
A type of thinking in which the sound of a word, rather than its meaning, gives the direction to subsequent associations.
What are clang associations?
400
A hallucination involving the perception of sound, most commonly of voices.
What are auditory hallucinations?
400
Comprised of three components: recognition that one has a mental illness, compliance with treatment, and ability to re-label unusual mental events as pathological.
What is insight?
500
Movements that resemble Parkinson's disease with shuffling-type walking and unusual hand or finger movement. Sometimes, the symptoms affect a person's ability to speak or may cause vocal tics.
What is parkinsonism?
500
Assessment of current emotional state.
What is affect assessment?
500
A belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly substantiated.
What are delusions?
500
A hallucination involving the perception of being touched or of something being under one's skin.
What are tactile/somatic hallucination?
500
Refers to the patient's capacity to make sound, reasoned and responsible decisions.