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The Gaslight Report by Frank George, Ph.D.
DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
Frank George, Ph.D.
Dec 07, 2025
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...someone with a big audience pushed a post claiming Trump is on an Alzheimers-specific infusion drug, linking it to everything from bruises to sleepiness to confusion. Sadly, the post is spreading.
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Trumps symptoms are consistent with another, less common but more disruptive and, in his case horrific, disorder Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). There are a couple of subtypes with important distinctions, but his changes in personality and behavior, along with specific language and physical problems, are consistent with FTD variants.
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Brain regions impaired in FTD are the ones responsible for self-monitoring, impulse control, and reality-checking. The nerve cell damage caused by FTD leads to loss of function in these brain regions, and in bvFTD, the nerve cell loss is most prominent in areas that control conduct, judgment, empathy and foresight.
A key symptom found in FTD is confabulation. This is seen when a person creates confident, detailed fabrications that fill gaps without any awareness theyre false. As the brains frontal lobes and their networks degenerate, one effect is that a persons ability to evaluate whether a memory is accurate weakens.
A result of confabulation, disturbing but true, is that Trump could likely ace a lie detector test (as opposed to a cognitive test) because he truly believes what he says.
Much more at link https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its-not-alzheimers-heres-why-c9f?
A little bio: Dr Frank George is a PhD psychologist and neurologist who was a Senior Fellow and laboratory director at the NIH and has taught university undergraduate, graduate and medical school courses on narcissism, mental health disorders, genetics, neuroscience and addictions.
https://frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/the-gaslight-report-by-dr-frank-george