Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the mental status exam. Hosts: Dr. Matthew Cho (PGY1) and Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Audio editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2) Episode Evaluation: Shelly Palchik (MS4) Timestamps: (0:20) Basics of the mental status exam (2:05) Appearance (4:00) Behaviour (5:00) Cooperation (6:20) Speech (7:18) Emotions (9:12) Perception (10:15) Thought process (12:35) Thought content (13:28) Insight (14:10) Judgement (14:46) Cognition Reference: Donnelly, J., Rosenberg, M., & Fleeson, W. P. (1970). The evolution of the mental status—past and future. American Journal of Psychiatry, 126(7), 997-1002. Folstein, M. F., Folstein, S. E., & McHugh, P. R. (1975). “Mini-mental state”: a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. Journal of psychiatric research, 12(3), 189-198. Norris, D. R., Clark, M. S., & Shipley, S. (2016). The mental status examination. American family physician, 94(8), 635-641. PsychDB. (2024, Jan 18). Mental Status Exam. (2024). Mental status examination. StatPearls. If you want to learn more about the mental status exam, check out our longer episode about this topic: https://www.psychedpodcast.org/blog/mse For more PsychEd, follow us on Instagram ( @psyched.podcast ), Facebook ( PsychEd Podcast ), X ( @psychedpodcast ), and Bluesky ( @psychedpodcast.bsky.social ). You can email us at psychedpodcast@gmail.com and visit our website at psychedpodcast.org.