Friday, March 24, 2017

Trump & ALZ

If you search Twitter, you will find thousands of tweets by using the search terms "Trump dementia."

I first heard these reports in June of 2016.  

They began multiplying in January as the inauguration of Trump approached.

Many of these tweets cite articles on the question of whether the president has dementia.

One interesting and brief summary is "Linguistic Features Identify Alzheimer's in Narrative Speech" by Charles Moore, who reviews a study headed by Dr. Frank Rudzicz.  

https://cdn.alzheimersnewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WinterLightteam.jpg

“Every caregiver knows that people with dementia have good days and bad days — we can tell this by talking to them, because speech is a rich source of information on the brain’s cognitive function,” says study co-author Dr. Jed Meltzer, a neurorehabilitation scientist with the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences, a premier international center for the study of brain function. 

I've been noticing quite a few ALZ-like qualities in Trump's speech.  I'm familiar with this speech because of spending so much time with my mother in her last four years.

*  repetition -- Trump repeats statements so often in his speeches.  He repeats words like "very very very."

*  simple vocabulary --  Trump doesn't know how to praise a politician or diplomat or anyone else using complex, precise vocabulary.  All he does is repeat five simple words:  great, huge, terrific, amazing, big.  For those he doesn't like it's loser, sad, stupid, horrible, weak.  

* simple sentences -- Subject, verb, period.  There are very few sentences that begin with "Although, when, whether, if" or other subordinating conjunctions.  

* simple ideas and lack of detail in presenting them.

There are other signs of his dementia beyond speech:

  • his inability to remember what he has said or done earlier.

  • his grandiosity, a part of my mother's Alzheimer's.  During late 2007 and early 2008, she confused me with Hillary Clinton and thought I was running for president.  Then she thought my husband was running.

  • his lack of impulse control--like tweeting that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.  His frontal lobes and temporal lobes are not functioning well.

http://www.alz.org/dementia/fronto-temporal-dementia-ftd-symptoms.asp

These kinds of things convince me that Trump has dementia.  He lacks the 

The novelist described Trump as a speaker "wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.”

https://www.inverse.com/article/27515-donald-trump-bad-vocabulary

4 comments:

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