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President Donald Trump likes to boast that he’s taken three cognitive tests since being elected to office and has aced them all.
But the 79-year-old president touting multiple assessments is not the sign of genius he might be making it out to be. For some in the medical community, it is actually a red flag.
Trump shared that he had taken a cognitive test during his first term, with a line that went viral where he bragged about being able to remember a series of words: “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”
In recent weeks, he’s brought up having taken multiple cognitive tests and bragged about being able to identify a bear first, then a squirrel.
But the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is meant to detect signs of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or other conditions, not measure IQ.
“If you have one MoCA, that’s like taking your temperature,” said Dr. Henry David Abraham, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine. " If a temperature is okay, you don’t come back every 10 minutes and take another temperature. But if it’s not okay, then you want to see where it’s going."
Abraham was careful not to offer a specific diagnosis and noted that the American public simply does not have the results, but Trump’s recent brags about taking the test multiple times raise questions about whether he’s slipping and by how much.
“When they’re repeated that way clinically, we are in fact looking for slippage. We want to know how quickly he’s going down. Has he gone off a cliff?” Abraham said. “We do know that the behavior is worrisome, that they looked at it three times.”
Trump claimed earlier this month that he took the cognitive test after being criticized as dumb.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/expert-warns-trump-79-over-144437582.html
WHY did he have to take a cognitive test in the first place?
But the 79-year-old president touting multiple assessments is not the sign of genius he might be making it out to be. For some in the medical community, it is actually a red flag.
Trump shared that he had taken a cognitive test during his first term, with a line that went viral where he bragged about being able to remember a series of words: “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”
In recent weeks, he’s brought up having taken multiple cognitive tests and bragged about being able to identify a bear first, then a squirrel.
But the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is meant to detect signs of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or other conditions, not measure IQ.
“If you have one MoCA, that’s like taking your temperature,” said Dr. Henry David Abraham, professor of psychiatry emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine. " If a temperature is okay, you don’t come back every 10 minutes and take another temperature. But if it’s not okay, then you want to see where it’s going."
Abraham was careful not to offer a specific diagnosis and noted that the American public simply does not have the results, but Trump’s recent brags about taking the test multiple times raise questions about whether he’s slipping and by how much.
“When they’re repeated that way clinically, we are in fact looking for slippage. We want to know how quickly he’s going down. Has he gone off a cliff?” Abraham said. “We do know that the behavior is worrisome, that they looked at it three times.”
Trump claimed earlier this month that he took the cognitive test after being criticized as dumb.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/expert-warns-trump-79-over-144437582.html
WHY did he have to take a cognitive test in the first place?
