STRESS....strong indicators of sudden health events

You keep posting this stuff but you have no proof the Trump is personally effected by anything you assume. Assumptions are not facts, especially when Trump continues to be able to speak for long periods without the help of notes or a teleprompter like Slow Joe depends on.

Show me evidence that Trump is actually suffering from this debilitating stress you speak of and I'll be happy to continue this conversation. Until then, it's your opinion, which you are entitled to.

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Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist and the author of the book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity. He is also a blogger for Psychology Today and the creator of the Substack Road to Omega.


SCIENCE DUDE...not jmo

Dr. Fauci is also a science guy.

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Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist and the author of the book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity. He is also a blogger for Psychology Today and the creator of the Substack Road to Omega.


SCIENCE DUDE...not jmo

Do you have some sort of secret analysis of Trump's mental state I'm not aware of? Otherwise, it IS your opinion... DUDE

It amazes me what you come up with in your head that has no basis in fact. I'm sure there are people who fit into the box you're placing Trump in, but you know nothing about Trump other than what your sources tell you... and they suck, sorry.

As a neuroscientist myself, the question I’m mulling is whether Trump’s suspected brain damage is only in the area associated with speech production, known as Broca’s area, or also in the region associated with language comprehension, known as Wernicke’s area. The kind of paraphasia Trump is demonstrating, which does not involve a nonsensical pattern of words, is more likely to be a problem related to speech production, which is a less serious cognitive impairment.

The Trump-related gaffes that are much more concerning to me involve Trump confusing one person for another, in a way that is not just the result of a name slip, but an actual confusion of one person for another.

Trump’s Republican rival Nikki Haley suggested Trump may be mentally unfit for holding office because — during a campaign speech in January — the former president seemed to repeatedly confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump accused Haley of turning down security for the U.S. Capitol offered by his administration on Jan. 6, 2021, and then destroying “all of the information, all of the evidence.”

This example is perplexing because Haley and Pelosi are on opposite sides of the political spectrum and have little in common other than being female politicians. Most notably, Haley had no official role whatsoever during the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

This isn’t the first time Trump has mixed up two women with whom he’s quite familiar. In Trump’s deposition during his civil rape case last year, he identified the supposed victim E. Jean Carroll as his ex-wife, Marla Maples. While this made headlines, the video posted by the Wall Street Journal does not show the photo Trump was looking at, so it’s impossible to judge whether the photo was simply blurry and ambiguous, as Trump claims.

ALSO READ: 11 ways Trump doesn’t become president

What appears more worrisome is Trump confusing Biden for former President Barack Obama over and over again in different speeches. According to New York Magazine, it has occurred on at least seven different occasions. This month, on March 2 during a rally in Richmond, Va., Trump said “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word.”

This slip would be minor if it weren’t for the fact that Obama hasn’t been president for almost eight years. Back in September, during a speech at the Pray Vote Stand summit in Washington, D.C., Trump appeared to boast that he beat Obama in 2016 and will do it again. What makes things worse is that Trump has tried to explain these confusions as sarcasm or comedy, rather than blaming it on mental fatigue or something a little more understandable. This gives the impression that he’s trying to cover up cognitive impairment that is starting to become severe enough that it can’t be hidden from the public.

The last recent gaffe worth mentioning is one where Trump’s brain appeared to flat out stop functioning. As can be seen in this video, starting around the 2:10 mark, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert capitalized on this moment, saying:

“Donald Trump had two rallies this weekend — one in Virginia and one in North Carolina — but the two speeches had one unifying theme: His brain is broke. Here he is in Greensboro talking about how the U.S. doesn’t need to import oil from petro states.”

The clip of Trump then rolls, and he says something like, “We are a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-pi-tu, ahhh.”

He appears to have a cognitive glitch mid-sentence. Colbert then remarks, “Not entirely sure what’s going on there, but apparently he can’t say the word Russia without climaxing.”

So, what can we conclude from all these examples of verbal slippages and downright confusion?

OMG....A SCIENTIST SPECIALIZING IN THE BRAIN. CITES EXPLICIT EXAMPLES AND U THINK I AM
BLIND AND BIASED.....(pretty sad that YOUR biases r blatant and bullshit)

HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND SOME HANDLE STRESS BETTER THAT OTHERS??!!

Show me a Democrat on your side that would still be standing in the political ring if they took as many arrows as Trump has. You can’t because the low t wimps in you party can’t even handle offensive words.

Show me EVIDENCE that DONALD J TRUMP fits into the box you’re trying to put him in. He is gettingbstronger because he gets more backing and more money every day because the freaks in your party can’t win with their ideas, they can only use the courts to bypass the will of the people.

Rick wrote: HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND SOME HANDLE STRESS BETTER THAT OTHERS??!!

Show me a Democrat on your side that would still be standing in the political ring if they took as many arrows as Trump has. You can’t because the low t wimps in you party can’t even handle offensive words.

Show me EVIDENCE that DONALD J TRUMP fits into the box you’re trying to put him in. He is gettingbstronger because he gets more backing and more money every day because the freaks in your party can’t win with their ideas, they can only use the courts to bypass the will of the people.

Let me simply say.....I JUST DID in the previous post, however your willingness to "wish"away the obvious is stunning. I believe the "unicorn" effect is uncannily real......

Because of all the TDS, if Trump wins in November, this nation will have a mental health crisis. We should start building up stocks of Xanax and anti-depressants.

You can see why Democrats would break all the rules to make sure this doesn't happen.

Single white women already dominate when it comes to mental instability, but yes, we will definitely need China to ramp up production of the drugs that will be in high demand.

The system is working on plan B to take out Trump and I don't think they will be counting on leftist DA's and judges. More likely someone with good aim.

Rick wrote: Single white women already dominate when it comes to mental instability, but yes, we will definitely need China to ramp up production of the drugs that will be in high demand.

The system is working on plan B to take out Trump and I don't think they will be counting on leftist DA's and judges. More likely someone with good aim.

LET US RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL SUBJECT....i shall repost the scientific facts........

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what experts are saying. This doesn’t mean talking heads on TV. Rather, where do professional psychologists and neuroscientists stand on the subject?

Let’s start with what we can safely say about both candidates, and that is that they are certainly experiencing cognitive decline. This is because it is natural and expected for any human who is in their 80s or nearing octogenarian status. In his article, “I’m a neuroscientist — our presidential candidates have shrinking prefrontal cortexes,” author Erik Hoel cites studies and data that shows it is clear that age-related cognitive decline typically starts in one’s 30s and essentially never stops.

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At the beginning of this process of decline, it is basically impossible to see the signs without a series of specific memory tests and other mental examinations. But when you get up to the age range of our two presidential candidates, noticeable deficits such as verbal gaffes and obvious memory lapses become more frequent. While Hoel’s article does mention that there are what have been referred to as “super-agers” — individuals over 70 who show no signs of cognitive decline — it is safe to say through general observation over time that Biden and Trump don’t fall into that category.

The question of public interest: Are Biden and Trump experiencing standard cognitive decline, or are we seeing signs of dementia or some other troubling neurological disorder that would hinder a president’s ability to execute his duties? While cognitive decline is a natural part of aging, it is also a feature of dementia — a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term decrease in the ability to think and remember. Dementia can significantly impair a person's daily functioning.

According to Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychologist and author — and critic of Donald Trump — the ex-president’s recent gaffes show something beyond your typical age-related cognitive decline. In contrast, Gartner argued that Biden is experiencing typical age-related cognitive decline but nothing more.

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Gartner doesn’t mince words when it comes to the difference between the two candidates: “Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing.”

Specifically, he cites Trump’s verbal behavior in his recent CPAC speech as being consistent with frontotemporal dementia with progressive aphasia. That means the physical integrity of the part of his brain associated with language is deteriorating in a way that leads to speech pathologies. What’s worse — this is not just an impairment with his ability to speak fluently and without slurs, but a sign of a deeper neurological impairment that is associated with general confusion.

Let’s review specific examples.

Gartner cites Trump’s frequent display of what is called a “phonemic paraphasia” — the substitution of a word with a nonword that preserves half of the intended word. Instead of “missiles” Trump might say “mishes,” and instead of “Christmas” Trump would similarly say “chrishis.” Essentially, Trump starts out with the correct stem of the word but is unable to complete it so he just garbles an ending. The Biden campaign has even attempted to score political points off Trump’s speech patterns, posting a video on X with the caption, “Trump slurs his words while ranting: In Mexico until [unintelligible].”

In his appearance on The David Pakman Show, Gartner tells Pakman that all of the experts he has talked to have said that nobody without brain damage commits these kinds of phonemic paraphasias.

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As a neuroscientist myself, the question I’m mulling is whether Trump’s suspected brain damage is only in the area associated with speech production, known as Broca’s area, or also in the region associated with language comprehension, known as Wernicke’s area. The kind of paraphasia Trump is demonstrating, which does not involve a nonsensical pattern of words, is more likely to be a problem related to speech production, which is a less serious cognitive impairment.

The Trump-related gaffes that are much more concerning to me involve Trump confusing one person for another, in a way that is not just the result of a name slip, but an actual confusion of one person for another.

Trump’s Republican rival Nikki Haley suggested Trump may be mentally unfit for holding office because — during a campaign speech in January — the former president seemed to repeatedly confuse her with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump accused Haley of turning down security for the U.S. Capitol offered by his administration on Jan. 6, 2021, and then destroying “all of the information, all of the evidence.”

This example is perplexing because Haley and Pelosi are on opposite sides of the political spectrum and have little in common other than being female politicians. Most notably, Haley had no official role whatsoever during the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

This isn’t the first time Trump has mixed up two women with whom he’s quite familiar. In Trump’s deposition during his civil rape case last year, he identified the supposed victim E. Jean Carroll as his ex-wife, Marla Maples. While this made headlines, the video posted by the Wall Street Journal does not show the photo Trump was looking at, so it’s impossible to judge whether the photo was simply blurry and ambiguous, as Trump claims.

ALSO READ: 11 ways Trump doesn’t become president

What appears more worrisome is Trump confusing Biden for former President Barack Obama over and over again in different speeches. According to New York Magazine, it has occurred on at least seven different occasions. This month, on March 2 during a rally in Richmond, Va., Trump said “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word.”

This slip would be minor if it weren’t for the fact that Obama hasn’t been president for almost eight years. Back in September, during a speech at the Pray Vote Stand summit in Washington, D.C., Trump appeared to boast that he beat Obama in 2016 and will do it again. What makes things worse is that Trump has tried to explain these confusions as sarcasm or comedy, rather than blaming it on mental fatigue or something a little more understandable. This gives the impression that he’s trying to cover up cognitive impairment that is starting to become severe enough that it can’t be hidden from the public.

The last recent gaffe worth mentioning is one where Trump’s brain appeared to flat out stop functioning. As can be seen in this video, starting around the 2:10 mark, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert capitalized on this moment, saying:

“Donald Trump had two rallies this weekend — one in Virginia and one in North Carolina — but the two speeches had one unifying theme: His brain is broke. Here he is in Greensboro talking about how the U.S. doesn’t need to import oil from petro states.”

The clip of Trump then rolls, and he says something like, “We are a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-pi-tu, ahhh.”

He appears to have a cognitive glitch mid-sentence. Colbert then remarks, “Not entirely sure what’s going on there, but apparently he can’t say the word Russia without climaxing.”

So, what can we conclude from all these examples of verbal slippages and downright confusion?

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It is obvious to me that Trump is cognitively impaired in a way that is not typical for even people as old as
he is.