IN an AJC article on page 11, Monday Dec 10, 2007, Daniel Amen, a neuropsychiatrist and published author, says yes. Three of the four last presidents have shown clear brain pathology, he contends. Reagan’s Alzheimers was evident during his last term. President Clinton’s moral lapses and problems with bad judgement indicated problems in the prefrontal cortex. Bush’s struggle with language and emotional rigidity are symptoms of temporal lobe pathology.

My question: what do you do with the information when you get it? Who decides if he should leave office or seek treatment?

Would you rather have a president with certain pathologies that is effective and decisive or a president who is pathology free and just makes lousy decisions (Jimmy Carter?)

It is an interesting question, but not very functional.

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