By James Hamblin
...Trump’s grandiosity and impulsivity (click here) have made him a constant subject of speculation among those concerned with his mental health. But after more than a year of talking with doctors and researchers about whether and how the cognitive sciences could offer a lens to explain Trump’s behavior, I’ve come to believe there should be a role for professional evaluation beyond speculating from afar.
I’m not alone. Viewers of Trump’s recent speeches have begun noticing minor abnormalities in his movements. In November, he used his free hand to steady a small Fiji bottle as he brought it to his mouth. Onlookers described the movement as “awkward” and made jokes about hand size. Some called out Trump for doing the exact thing he had mocked Senator Marco Rubio for during the presidential primary—conspicuously drinking water during a speech....
Recent books, "Too Much and Never Enough" by Mary Trump clearly spells out a long time problem with mental health. Michael S. Schmit's "Donald Trump vs. The United States" clearly illustrates problems with the president's mental and physical health.
The so-called mini-strokes" stated by Trump himself, are professionally called TIAs or Transischemic Attacks or Transient Ischemic Attack. They are episodes that ultimately can be controlled by medication such as Plavix (click here). From what I can tell there is definitely a neurological deficit when it comes to his right leg. Whether it is transient is anyone's guess, but, it appears to be so. The pictures and films are convincing enough to state he from time to time has issues that are neurological with his right leg.
There are different neurological issues. His right leg may have an injury and/or a nerve insult of some kind that causes a limp. The other issue is whether or not if the limp is due to a brain insult to a nerve that effects the right leg. I don't think anyone has noticed any deficit to his right arm, but, there is this issue that manifested resulting in slurred speech. He definitely had a "thick tongue," otherwise, difficult to move his tongue to formulate speech. Any speech is a deficit connected to nerves in the head and brain. Given there was slurred speech that is a brain insult.
So, to put this into context, Donald J. Trump by at least one witness in his intimate family has knowledge of mental health problems. The presence of a neurological deficit has been detected by happenstance capture of the USA press what appears to be TIAs probably treated by medication. It appears as though the deficit is in his left brain because the right side of his body is effected.
When he was taken to Walt Reed Medical Center it would have been for a CAT Scan with and/or without contrast, possibly an MRI and/or an MRA to detect any blood flow deficits to the brain through the main arteries in the neck, the Circle of Willis at the base of the brain and quite possibly the coronaries of the heart.
The question of blood clots can be related to dysrhythmias of the heart. Atrial flutter or Atrial fibrillation causes dysfunction of the left ventricle of the heart resulting in a "pooling" of blood within that left ventricle causing small clots to be ejected through the Aorta and large vessels to the brain causing an infarct in the brain. The idea he may have had a brief neurological incident the MRA and even a cardiac catheterization would have been performed to rule out every potential problem.
The medications used in case of a heart incident are blood thinners such as coumadin and the new Apixaban. If the cardiologists had to place a stent in a coronary artery the president would be taking Plavix for a period of time until the heart grew a skin over the metal (stainless steel) stent. Once that skin is in place, there is a far less chance of blood clot from a metal device in the heart artery(ies).
