<Tr> <Th> ICD - 9 - CM </Th> <Td> 94.09, 94.11 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> The mental status examination or mental state examination (MSE) is an important part of the clinical assessment process in psychiatric practice . It is a structured way of observing and describing a patient's psychological functioning at a given point in time, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood, and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and judgment . There are some minor variations in the subdivision of the MSE and the sequence and names of MSE domains . </P> <P> The purpose of the MSE is to obtain a comprehensive cross-sectional description of the patient's mental state, which, when combined with the biographical and historical information of the psychiatric history, allows the clinician to make an accurate diagnosis and formulation, which are required for coherent treatment planning . </P>

What are the main domains of the mental state examination (mse)
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