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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mounting evidence that Trump has Alzheimer's Disease: [View all]
Neurocritic is a blog about topics from neuroscience. This post concerns the relationship between Alzheimer's Disease and deteriorating speech-patterns.
https://neurocritic.blogspot.de/2017/02/using-discourse-analysis-to-assess.html
The quantified linguistic features included:
Number of unique words
Non-specific nouns e.g., thing, something, anything
Filler words well, so, basically, actually, literally, um, ah
Low-imageability, high frequency verbs e.g., get, give, go, have, do
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You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons and other things. Like, lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things. Nobody talks about that. I didn't do anything for Russia. I've done nothing for Russia.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/watch-the-video-that-suggests-trump-is-suffering-from-alzheimers/
At 70 years old, Trump is the oldest person to be elected president. His father Fred was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease six years before his death. According to the Alzheimers Association, age, family history and heredity are the most important risk factors in developing the disease. Most sufferers start to show signs of the illness at age 65.
Remember when Trump forgot which country hed just bombed? When it just slipped his mind to sign a pair of executive orders during an event created for that explicit purpose? When he couldnt locate Rudy Giuliani, who was sitting directly across from him at a media briefing? Those things dont seem like innocuous senior moments.
Trump also seems to exhibit other signs of Alzheimers listed by health organizations. Moodiness, paranoia, belligerence and erratic behavior are all key indicators of the onset of dementia. Trumps inappropriate tweets, his belief that his phones are tapped and his quickness to anger, as described by his staff, all fit the bill.