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At 81 years old, President Joe Biden has raised significant concerns among voters about his age and mental acuity.
But his rival in the presidential election, Donald Trump, may have a more serious perception problem.
Experts are growing concerned about Trump’s condition. salon reportthe former president has struggled to form coherent sentences; once again At a rally in North Carolina this month, he confused Biden with his predecessor, Barack Obama.
“Not enough people are sounding the alarm based on President Donald Trump’s actions,” said John Gartner, a psychologist and former Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor who wrote a book about President Trump’s mental health. But in my opinion, he is dangerously slipping into dementia.” salon.
“This is a story of two brains,” he added. “Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is suffering from dementia.”
“In my opinion, Donald Trump’s cognitive state continues to deteriorate and the situation is getting worse,” Gartner said. “If Trump were your relative, you would be thinking about caregiver support right now.”
Others agreed.
“This makes sense because, as the Dementia Care Association points out, people’s confusion, as opposed to occasional forgetting of names, is an early sign of dementia,” says Dr. said Vincent, founder and executive director of the Washington Cognitive Therapy Center.green wood he told the publication.
Experts believe that Trump’s mispronunciations of words such as “Venezuela” and “immigrant crime” are due to a speech impediment caused by brain damage, as Greenwood claimed. They tend to agree that he is showing early signs of “aphasia” and that it is “not just aging.”
Others, like Harry Segal, a clinical psychologist who specializes in mental illness and a senior lecturer at Cornell University, offer more nuanced assessments, but they don’t lend much credibility to Trump.
“Because this is an intermittent problem, it suggests that President Trump suffers from cognitive misalignments that affect the way he associates words and their meanings, especially when he is stressed and exhausted.” he said. salon. “However, it is important to note that Trump’s pathological lies are themselves a form of mental illness. Therefore, these cognitive deficits are literally layered on top of already supposedly impaired psychological functions. It’s sitting.”
And at the end of the day, Trump is still in contention Dozens of criminal charges.
Needless to say, this does not bode well for the country’s future.
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