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In reply to the discussion: In 1980 I said that Reagan had early Alzheimer's [View all]politicat
(9,808 posts)Though I think he has vascular dementia rather than Alzeheimer's, because the leading edge of vascular tends to present with emotional volitility and a contracting vocabulary long before the memory issues become apparent. We know he's always been an asshole, but he used to be a much more articulate asshole. (Vascular also comes with executive function dysfunction and attention deficit earlier than Alzheimer's, and I see both.)
Speech looping is when someone will repeat a word or set of phrases a couple to a few times when their flow of thought is interrupted (say, by noise in the room or an interjection) and when someone will use the same set of stock phrases and stories over and over. Speech looping sounds like someone is a scratched vinyl record.