Joe Biden's gaffes drew attention Thursday as the US president struggled to restore voters' confidence in his ability to lead the country for another term.
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In an interview on LCN, Dr.s Julian Kavanagh, an assistant professor of neurology at Emory University Hospital, insisted that the slips of the tongue were not a concern for him regarding Mr. Biden's health.
“Slips of the tongue do not specifically indicate anything neurodegenerative or neurological,” the doctor said.
The latter stressed that the US President appeared more solid than he did during the previous week's debate.
However, these fluctuations in Joe Biden's symptoms remain worrying to the neurologist.
“That's what's really interesting, it's these moments. welike yesterday, but also followed by many more moments. on“Like the day of the debate,” he recalls.
If some rumors raise the possibility that Joe Biden has Parkinson's disease, then Ds Kavanagh believes we should be cautious and declines to mention such a diagnosis, even if the president's ambivalence may correspond to a symptom of the disease.
“You still have to spend a lot of time with the patient and be able to do a real clinical examination,” he insists.
On Thursday evening, Joe Biden confirmed that he was in good condition, referring to three neurological examinations he had recently undergone.
Drs However, Julian Kavanagh points out that such assessments remain superficial.
“We understand that even if he had been examined by a neurologist, there was no battery of neurocognitive tests that would have allowed us to delve deeper into his cognitive abilities, memory, executive function, judgment, language, etc.
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