Congress’ pharmacist hints some members have Alzheimer’s, backpedals furiously

Ars Technica ^ | October 11, 2017 | Beth Mole

[boop]

I think Pelosi may have Lewy body dementia.

Not Alzheimer's.

Alzheimers has a slow decline, usually linear.

In Lewy body dementia, a person can be simply talking, then "zones out" and forgets where they were.

Forgetting words, etc.

[publius911]

I have no facts either way. I don’t trust these clarifications anyway, I go with the odds and odds are there are some.

The clarification is almost inconsequential; the main subject, not so much.

Imagine the smug, self-important GOPe and their electorate which has not been shy about psychoanalyzing Trump, even our gazillion of illegals have played the game; a few self proclaimed "professionals" have posted long, humorously protracted uninvited analyses of Trump's mental and character impairments, and few Freepers, beside myself have in the last 20 years questioned the absence in our Constitution about a provision, besides age, parentage and place of birth, to qualify to run and actually serve as president.

And evidently neither did it occur to the Founding Fathers or a single reader of the Federalist papers!
Nothing short of astounding.

[Osage Orange]

That could be the least of his worries...........

[publius911]

I think Pelosi may have Lewy body dementia. Not Alzheimer's.
Alzheimers has a slow decline, usually linear.

I take seriously the medical explanations I've read that dementia is the synonym for Alzheimer's, which is the proper practice, since Alzheimers can only be confirmed via autopsy.

There is no pre-death test/diagnostic medical tool.
Mind you, there are many I wish could have been autopsied before they died...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I think Pelosi may have Lewy Lefty body dementia.

[publius911]

I stand corrected.
Who am I to argue with the Mayo Clinic and its army of world-class physicians and researchers?
In my defense, my memory and 4 years of Latin failed me.
In Latin, Mens, mentis refers to the non-physical mind (dementia), and I wasn't aware that the Romans practiced physical autopsies.

"Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control)."

Link :

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lewy-body-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352025

The Latin word for brain is cerebrum

I continue to learn something new every day.