Trump wasnt always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?
https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=emailSTAT reviewed decades of Trumps on-air interviews and compared them to Q&A sessions since his inauguration. The differences are striking and unmistakable.
Research has shown that changes in speaking style can result from cognitive decline. STAT therefore asked experts in neurolinguistics and cognitive assessment, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists, to compare Trumps speech from decades ago to that in 2017; they all agreed there had been a deterioration, and some said it could reflect changes in the health of Trumps brain.
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The experts noted clear changes from Trumps unscripted answers 30 years ago to those in 2017, in some cases stark enough to raise questions about his brain health. They noted, however, that the same sort of linguistic decline can also reflect stress, frustration, anger, or just plain fatigue.
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The reason linguistic and cognitive decline often go hand in hand, studies show, is that fluency reflects the performance of the brains prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher-order cognitive functions such as working memory, judgment, understanding, and planning, as well as the temporal lobe, which searches for and retrieves the right words from memory. Neurologists therefore use tests of verbal fluency, and especially how it has changed over time, to assess cognitive status.
The reason linguistic and cognitive decline often go hand in hand, studies show, is that fluency reflects the performance of the brains prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher-order cognitive functions such as working memory, judgment, understanding, and planning, as well as the temporal lobe, which searches for and retrieves the right words from memory. Neurologists therefore use tests of verbal fluency, and especially how it has changed over time, to assess cognitive status.
The reason linguistic and cognitive decline often go hand in hand, studies show, is that fluency reflects the performance of the brains prefrontal cortex, the seat of higher-order cognitive functions such as working memory, judgment, understanding, and planning, as well as the temporal lobe, which searches for and retrieves the right words from memory. Neurologists therefore use tests of verbal fluency, and especially how it has changed over time, to assess cognitive status.
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applegrove
(118,927 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Different people feel different stress levels from the same stimuli.
It is known that Trump likes predictability, routine, strongly prefers to be in his own home/bed, whether that is Mar-Loco or NYC.
His short attention span is not necessarily new, nor is his lack of education.
He is and has been a world class bullshitter.
All together, not the best grouping of factors to be President.
so what ever age related deficients he may have had, tis for sure gonna get worse.
QC
(26,371 posts)I first thought Trump was in the early stages of it a good while back, during the primaries. It's all there--the confusion, the obsession with certain topics, the blank facial expressions, the lack of a filter, etc.
I'm wondering if this is something like Rock Hudson's big secret, that wasn't a secret at all among insiders. Does everyone in every government on earth know that the U.S. president has dementia and only we are in the dark?