Mental State Examination

This episode covers the Mental Health Act (1983) (updated in 2007).

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/moremedicine/psychiatry/mentalhealthact/ or in the psychiatry sec ...

This episode covers alcohol dependence.

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/moremedicine/psychiatry/alcoholdependence/ or in the psychiatry section of the Zero to Fina ...

Welcome to PsychEd — the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers the mental status examination and makes use of practical and fictional examples to delve deeper into the skills and concepts Learning Objectives: The learning objectives for ...  Show more

Episode #3, released on June 8, 2016 and recorded in Spring 2016. Today’s topic is the mental status exam, and I will be interviewing Dr. Michael Casher, one of the attending psychiatrists at the University of Michigan. We will cover: -What is the mental status exam? Why do we ha ...  Show more

What is the mental status exam, and why do we use it so much in psychiatry? In the first part of our Mental Status Exam series, we will start by reviewing the purpose of the mental status exam in psychiatric practice. We will then introduce the first three components of the menta ...  Show more

Arsalan, Rabih, Reza, and Sharmin discuss the case of an elderly patient with altered mental status.