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The use of cognitive screenings, specifically the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, in evaluating the mental fitness of presidents.
The publicly available evidence that has dementia is mixed and circumstantial: multiple clinicians and commentators point to changes in gait, speech, memory lapses and impulsivity as worrisome signs, ...
Public evidence about Donald Trump’s cognitive assessments comprises a small set of official disclosures and media reporting: a 2018 Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) reportedly scored 30/30 (annou...
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...
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...
) 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...