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Screening assessment for detecting cognitive impairment
President Trump publicly described a perfect result on what he called an "IQ test," but multiple contemporaneous reports show he was referring to a brief dementia screening — the Montreal Cognitive As...
Donald Trump’s intelligence cannot be established by the public record: claims that he scored “perfect” on an IQ test refer to a dementia screening, not an IQ exam, and widely circulated numeric IQ es...
Donald Trump has publicly asserted that he took and “aced” a dementia screening commonly identified as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), but ; news coverage and official summaries report claim...
Public reporting shows that recent presidents have received different kinds of cognitive or neurological evaluations but routine, published cognitive test scores are rare; President Trump has repeated...
Donald Trump recently boasted that he “aced” a very hard “IQ test” at Walter Reed and suggested opponents take it; reporting shows he was likely referring to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), ...
Public reporting shows a steady stream of clinicians, family members, journalists and opinion writers raising concerns about Donald J. Trump’s cognition based on observed behavior, survey data, and se...
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief, multidomain cognitive screen designed to detect mild cognitive impairment and early dementia in clinical settings, with emphasis on attention and e...
Publicly available medical information about presidential cognitive screenings centers largely on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a 10–15 minute, 30-point screening tool designed to detect m...
Experts and commentators point to a cluster of signs — changes in speech (tangential, rambling comments), impulsivity and avoidance of demanding events, gait or facial asymmetries, and increasing conf...
President Trump has publicly touted passing a brief cognitive screening (commonly the Montreal Cognitive Assessment) and has posted videos touting his results; reporting and background materials note ...
Short cognitive screens such as the are well‑validated, rapid tools that are sensitive to early, mild and widely used as first‑line screens . However, they are not diagnostic instruments and—when used...
Available public reporting shows persistent debate: multiple clinicians and commentators say President Trump exhibits behaviors they interpret as possible early dementia, while his medical team and so...
Donald Trump repeatedly boasted that he “aced” or got a “perfect score” on what he described as an IQ or “very hard” test administered at Walter Reed, and used that claim to challenge and deride oppon...
Public reporting shows a modern pattern: presidents’ doctors sometimes administer brief cognitive screens and release summaries, but full, standardized cognitive test score releases are rare. Recent c...
Donald Trump underwent a brief cognitive screening identified in media reports as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) during his 2018 medical evaluation and his team’s doctors publicly reported a...
Medical records and released test materials do not publicly confirm former President Trump’s exact Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score and item-level responses; physicians have publicly stated ...
President Donald Trump’s Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score of has been publicly referenced by Trump himself and in White House communications, but the timeline and the formal “release” of res...
The documents you provided contain that Donald J. Trump took any named cognitive test, nor do they specify a year or facility for any such test; the material focuses on unrelated medical and research ...
) is a well-validated, brief instrument that is more sensitive than for detecting and early Alzheimer’s-type changes, but its performance in single, one-off public screening campaigns is constrained b...
No peer‑reviewed clinical study has publicly presented a formal, published cognitive assessment of former President Donald J. Trump’s mental abilities; what exists in the scholarly and journalistic re...