St. John’s Wort and Depression Symptoms

The total expression of a person's emotional responses, mood, cognitive functioning, and personality is known as mental status.

The cerebellum is primarily responsible for a person's mental status.

Investigating cognitive abilities in a mental status evaluation includes assessing response to analogies.

The cerebral cortex is responsible for perception and behavior.

The assessment of neurologic lesions causing alterations in mental status is covered in Chapter 10.

Elder abuse is not a concern when evaluating changes in cognitive functioning and memory in older adults.

Changes in activities of daily living (ADLs) can be influenced by the medications prescribed to older adults.

Assessing mental status is a one-time event at the beginning of the patient interaction.

The shorter screening examination is typically used for health visits when a known mental status problem is evident.

Caregivers play a minimal role in monitoring changes in the mental status of their patients.

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment tools (MoCA and low literacy MoCA-Basic) focus on assessing cognitive status through memory recall and language skills only.

The MoCA- Basic has a sensitivity of 81% and specificity of 86% in identifying mild cognitive impairment.

Scores on the MoCA tests significantly vary based on the level of education of the individuals being tested.

The MoCA assessments do not include tasks related to executive functioning.

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment tools are less comprehensive than the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Impaired central nervous system function can result from medications, leading to symptoms such as slowed reaction time and confusion.

Changes in cerebral function can only be due to neurological diseases, not cardiovascular or metabolic conditions.

The MMSE Version 2 was developed to maintain problematic items from the original version.

The ability to perform instrumental ADLs is not a crucial aspect of assessing independence in individuals.

Elder abuse is not related to mental status assessment.

Observing a patient's physical appearance and behavior is not important during a mental status examination.

Elder abuse is not a concern that should be considered when evaluating changes in cognitive functioning and memory in older adults.

Caregivers have a minimal role in monitoring changes in the mental status of their patients.

Assessing mental status is a one-time event that does not need to be repeated during the patient interaction.

Investigating cognitive abilities in a mental status evaluation does not include assessing response to analogies.

The MoCA is more effective than the MMSE in distinguishing between patients with single domain mild cognitive impairment and those with multiple domain mild cognitive impairment.

The Mini-Cog takes up to 10 minutes to administer.

A score of 2 or less on the Mini-Cog is associated with probable dementia.

The MMSE consists of 10 items that measure various aspects of cognitive function.

A score of 26 or higher on the MMSE is associated with dementia.

Older adults with episodic memory loss are likely to experience cognitive decline.

Concern from a close family member about an older adult's memory loss is a strong indication to use a standardized tool to assess cognition.

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is primarily designed for detecting postpartum depression.

The MoCA-Basic version is intended for high literacy adults.

Caregivers have a minimal role in monitoring changes in the mental status of older adults.

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment tools focus solely on memory recall and language skills.

Elder abuse should not be considered when evaluating changes in cognitive functioning and memory in older adults.

Patient safety is not a concern during mental status evaluations.

Assessing activities of daily living (ADLs) is not influenced by the medications prescribed to older adults.

Changes in an older adult's personality can be an important indicator of cognitive decline.