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Dr. Eric Strong MD, a hospitalist and clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, breaks down what we can learn about Trump’s thought process from how he uses language.

TL;DR – Strong doesn’t think Trump has a primary dementia like Alzheimer disease that would explain the loosening associations that characterize his speech, but …

“If I was seeing him as a patient, I would probably order some blood tests, a brain MRI, and give him a referral for formal neuropsych testing. … What do I think is going on in his brain? I don’t know, but whatever it is, it’s serious and it will certainly not be getting better after November.”

https://youtu.be/93U2F4oz4X8?feature=shared

Trump and the loosening of associations (aka “derailment”)

https://dictionary.apa.org/derailment