ASEPTIC Mnemonic for the Mental Status Examination (MSE)



A - Appearance: Hygiene, clothing, grooming, physical abnormalities

S - Speech: Rate, rhythm, tone, volume, fluency, slurring

E - Emotion: Mood (subjective reported) and Affect (observed emotional state)

P - Perceptions: Auditory / visual hallucinations

T - Thoughts: Content (delusions, obsessions, SI/HI), Process (coherence, organization, tangentiality)

I - Insight: Understanding and Judgement

C - Cognition: Orientation, attention, memory, executive function



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