But he then went on to insist, “Joe doesn’t know he’s alive, OK? He doesn’t know he’s alive.” I’d say he’s not competent to be president.” At first, it seemed the president was opting to take the high road. In Sunday’s interview, Wallace asked Trump point-blank, “Is Joe Biden senile?” Trump’s bragging about his test results may simply be part of his strategy to cast Joe Biden as “ not all there.” But it’s hard to fathom why the Trump campaign thinks this is a shrewd gambit. And some might even say we should have a president who didn’t find it “very hard” to ace it. We should all hope the guy with the nuclear codes can “ace” this test. The final exercise, presumably hardest according to Trump, simply asks the patient to provide the full date, current time and location of the examination. The last five questions of the 10-minute, nine-task exercise assess things like basic abstract reasoning - e.g., what do a train and a bicycle have in common? - and rudimentary memory. Crowing that you “aced” the MoCA is a bit like bragging that you passed a sobriety test while sober. The problem is that none of the questions on the standard Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test are supposed to be hard if you aren’t suffering from dementia of some kind. “I aced it,” he proudly told Fox’s Sean Hannity earlier this month. Just to be clear, the president “passed” the test, a fact he’s boasted about on numerous occasions. All rights reserved.President Trump’s interview with Chris Wallace, which aired on “Fox News Sunday,” was remarkable in more ways than there is room to recount here.īut let’s start with what should be the lead story: The president of the United States told Wallace that the mental competence test he recently took was “very hard,” specifically the last five questions. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Our findings also extend these findings to community-dwelling older adults, who are already most vulnerable to age-related cognitive declines.Īging Cognition Executive Function Pain. Our results support previous findings that individuals with chronic pain tend to show poorer cognitive functioning compared with pain-free controls in domains of attention and executive function. Attention was significantly associated with all pain characteristics including pain intensity and disability, while executive function was associated with mechanical detection (P < 0.05).
The attention and language domains survived adjustments for age, sex, education, depression, and pain duration (P < 0.05). Older adults with chronic pain had lower MoCA scores compared with controls on domains of executive function, attention, memory, and language (P < 0.05). Mechanical and thermal detection, and thermal pain thresholds were assessed during the QST session. Health/medical history, cognitive function and self-reported pain measures were administered during the HAS. Subjects underwent a health assessment (HAS) and a quantitative sensory testing (QST) session. Most participants reported pain on most days during the past three months (63%). Individuals over 60 years old enrolled in the Neuromodulatory Examination of Pain and mobility Across the Lifespan (NEPAL) study were included if they completed the MoCA and other study measures (n = 62). Secondary data analysis, cross-sectional. The present study aimed to determine whether specific cognitive domains part of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) are significantly lower in community-dwelling older adults with chronic pain compared with older adults without pain and whether these domains would be associated with self-reported pain, disability, and somatosensory function.