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Frontotemporal dementia

A type of dementia presentation where disinhibition can precede memory loss.

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Jan 21, 2026

Trump suffers from dementia

Public debate has sharply divided over whether Donald Trump “suffers from dementia”: multiple clinicians and commentators point to behaviours they say are consistent with dementia—disinhibition, word-...

Jan 12, 2026

What medical criteria do clinicians use to diagnose dementia in public figures?

Clinicians diagnose dementia through a structured, multi-step clinical process that emphasizes cognitive and functional decline, exclusion of reversible causes, and—when needed—neuropsychological test...