Category: Mental Status Exam

Mental Status Examination - Mood and Affect

8/10/2016

Feeling like practicing some of your mental status examination skills? While it may seem simple to ask patients about their mood, comparing one's stated mood to their affect in terms of congruency and generating a description of their affect can be quite challenging, but is a key skill in psychiatry.

In this video, we see examples to help us navigate between different descriptions of affect and mood including euthymia, dysphoria, elated/euphoria, lability, as well as better understand the range of affect from full to blunted and flat.

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Mental Status Examination - Speech

8/2/2016

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Feeling like practicing some of your mental status examination skills? Assessing one's style of communication and especially picking up on the subtle nuances of their ‪speech‬ can be quite hard at times, however this skill can be particularly useful when formulating a diagnostic impression.

In this video, we learn what aspects of speech to pay particular attention to, as well as we see examples of different types of speech including pressured speech, poverty of speech, disorganized speech and echolalia.

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Mental Status Examination - Behaviour and Motor Movements

7/5/2016

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Feeling like practicing some of your mental status examination skills? Observing a patient's behaviours including involuntary movements and other motor actions can be a hard habit to get into, but having this skill can prove quite helpful in terms of gaining further insight into their mental state and coming to a possible diagnosis.

In this video, we see examples to help us navigate between different types of movement behaviours including ‪catatonia‬, psychomotor agitation, psychomotor retardation, and relaxed or comfortable motor activity.

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Mental Status Examination - Thought Form

3/31/2016

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Feeling like practicing some of your mental status examination skills? Determining a patient's "thought process" can be tricky, but having this skill can prove helpful in terms of earlier recognition of mental health conditions such as mania
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In this video, we see examples to help us navigate between different thought forms including circumstantial, tangential, loose associations and flight of ideas.

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Mental Status Examination - Mood and Affect

Mental Status Examination - Speech

Mental Status Examination - Behaviour and Motor Movements

Mental Status Examination - Thought Form

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