Mnemonics for Mental State Examination (MSE)

Mnemonics for MSE: ASEPTIC

A- Appearance and Behaviour
S- Speech
E- Emotion [mood and affect]
P- Perception [Hallucination and illusion]
T- Thought content and process
I- Insight and Judgement
C- Cognition

Mnemonics for examination for cognition: GOAL-CRAMP

‘I’d like to start off by asking you a few questions to test your concentration and memory……….'

G- general: Alertness and Co-operation
O- orientation: Time and Place
A- attention: WORLD backwards and Serial Sevens
L- language: Naming and Repetition
C- calculation: Division and Subtraction
R- right Hemisphere Function: Intersecting pentagons and Clock-face
A- abstraction: Proverbs and Similarities
M- memory: Short term and Long-term memory
P- praxis: Wave good-bye and Comb hair