Mental Status

significant behavioral or psychological pattern that is associated with distress or disability and has a significant risk of pain, disability or death or a loss of freedom

organic - due to brian disease of known specific organic cause (delirium, dementia, etoh/drug intoxication)

psychiatric mental illness - organic etiology has not yet been established (anxiety, schizophrenia)

• Appearance
• Behavior
• Cognition
• Thought processes

• orientation
• registration
• attention and calculation
• recall
• language