Cognition
Awareness of person, place, time, and situation, often recorded as "A&O x4"
What is orientation
Patient's subject report of how they are feeling
What is mood
A fixed, false belief that is maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary and is not accounted for by culture or religion
what is a delusion
A patient is unable to sit still, paces, wrings their hands, and fidgets. This is the term for this state of restlessness.
what is psychomotor agitation
Includes the ability to understand one's own illness and its consequences, and is often rated as good, fair, or poor.
What is insight
A patient's affect is described as this when it shows almost no expression, with a very limited range of emotion.
what is flat or blunted affect
A patient insists that other people can hear their thoughts out loud, or that an outside force is placing thoughts into their mind. These are examples of this kind of disturbance in the ownership of thought.
what is thought broadcasting or thought insertion
This MSE term describes the patient's manner toward the interviewer, such as cooperative, seductive, or hostile
what is attitude
Counting backward from 100 by 7s, or spelling "WORLD" backward, is used to assess this ability to sustain focus.
What is memory
A patient laughs while describing the recent death of their spouse. This mismatch between emotional expression and content is called this.
What is incongruent
Rapid shifts from topic to topic, with connections that are still understandable to the listener, are classically seen in mania and are known as this.
what is flight of ideas
Rapid speech that is difficult to interrupt is called this
what is pressured speech
The ability to assess a situation correctly and to act appropriately within that situation
what is judgment
A patient's inability to identify their mood state
What is alexithymia
A patient's answers wander off into loosely related topics and never return to the original question.
what is tangentiality
The delay between the end of the clinician's question and the start of the patient's answer, which is often prolonged in depression, is called this.
what is latency
When asked "What does 'a rolling stone gathers no moss' mean?", a patient who answers "rocks don't grow plants" is showing impairment in this cognitive skill.
What is abstract thinking (abstraction)
The inability to experience pleasure from activities that were once enjoyable, such as hobbies, food, or time with friends, is called this.
what is anhedonia
Speech so severely disorganized that words and phrases are strung together with no meaningful connection, making it essentially incomprehensible, is known by this culinary term.
what is word salad
A patient answers questions with only one or two words and does not elaborate. This is described as this quality of speech.
what is poverty of speech (alogia)