Psychiatrist flags 'alarming' debate tic — and urges Trump to seek a neurologist
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump should immediately seek a neurologist after exhibiting a classic and common sign of dementia at the presidential debates on Tuesday, according to a prominent psychiatrist. Prof. Richard A. Friedman, director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, argued in an Atlantic editorial Thursday that Trump's rhetorical tendencies would make any mental health expert "very worried." Friedman explained that such circumstantial and tangential speech can reflect the inability to engage in logical thinking and argued Trump is losing control of his own "tics." "People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning, for instance, in short-term memory," Friedman wrote. "If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness," he wrote.
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