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  2. Mental status examination - Wikipedia

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    The mental status examination (MSE) is an important part of the clinical assessment process in neurological and psychiatric practice. It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's psychological functioning at a given point in time, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and ...

  3. Tangential speech - Wikipedia

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    The term refers simplistically to a thought disorder shown from speech with a lack of observance to the main subject of discourse, such that a person whilst speaking on a topic deviates from the topic. Further definition is of speech that deviates from an answer to a question that is relevant in the first instance but deviates from the ...

  4. Diagnosis of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Diagnosis of schizophrenia from non-psychotic disorders Sensitivity 61.8 (51.7, 71.0) Specificity 94.1 (88.0, 97.2) 55% (19% to 89%) With a prevalence of 55%, 55 out of every 100 people with non-psychotic disorders will have schizophrenia. Of these, 21 will not be identified as having schizophrenia by use of FRS (38% of 55).

  5. Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia

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    The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS) is a semi-structured interview aimed at early diagnosis of affective disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. There are different versions of the test that have use different versions of diagnostic criteria, cover somewhat different diagnoses and ...

  6. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Psychosis is noted in Other specified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders as a DSM-5 category. Schizoaffective disorder is diagnosed if symptoms of mood disorder are substantially present alongside psychotic symptoms. Psychosis that results from a general medical condition or substance is termed secondary psychosis. [10]

  7. Schizophreniform disorder - Wikipedia

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    Schizophreniform disorder is a type of mental illness that is characterized by psychosis and closely related to schizophrenia.Both schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), have the same symptoms and essential features except for two differences: the level of functional impairment and the duration of symptoms.

  8. Stilted speech - Wikipedia

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    Often, such speech can act as evidence for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) [3] or a thought disorder, [5] a common symptom in schizophrenia [6] or schizoid personality disorder. [7] To diagnose stilted speech, researchers have previously looked for the following characteristics: [8] speech conveying more information than necessary; vocabulary ...

  9. Thought blocking - Wikipedia

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    Persons undergoing thought blocking may utter incomprehensible speech; they may also repeat words involuntarily or make up new words. [citation needed] The main causes of thought blocking are schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, petit mal seizures, post-traumatic stress disorder, bradyphrenia, aphasia, dementia and delirium. [2]