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Assessment tool used to assess psychotropic drugs. AIMS (abnormal involuntary movement scale) What is a thought process? the flow of thought (coherent vs incoherent). Thought processes Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, looseness of association, circumstantiality, tangentiality, Looseness of association cluster, word salad, mutism, poverty of thought, poverty of content, racing thoughts, flight of ideas. Delusions Belief about the world that most people would agree is impossible. Hallucinations Audio9, visual, or tactile. Disorganized speech. Patients with a formal thought disorder do not make sense, because their thinking is not linear nor logical. Circumstantility There are many digressions in their speech and adds extraneous details. Looseness of association Veering from the subject at hand. Tangentiality Approaches incoherence. Digressions more abrupt and less obviously relevant.Looseness of Association: A more severe version of tangentiality/ Patient makes statements that lead to other statements in a very loose way, so that associative leaps are unclear. Word Salad This is an extreme version of LOA, in which the changes in topic are so extreme and the associations are so loose, that the resulting speech is completely incoherent. Mutism inability or refusal to speak. Poverty of thought Minimal words if patient speaks Poverty of content many word with content or meaning. Racing thoughts Rapid thought patterns, hard to keep track of. Flight of ideas symptom of mania that involves an abruptly switching in conversation from one topic to another Various types of speech Rate, volume, latency of response, general quality Volume loudly ( probably manic), low volume (probably depressed) Latency of response (jump too quickly or take too long)General quality (speak thoughtfully and articulate, or ramble in a vague and disconnected way). Various types of affect Stability of affect, appropriateness, rang