Dr. Daniel Hai

Maybe you need to look a little deeper into what you can know and maybe you shouldn't write someone off right away or maybe that person just doesn't want to help themselves and maybe you just need to accept that.

I think neurologically speaking, I am looking for not just executive functioning, meaning for instance, there are certain tests that see how often a person is obsessively, compulsively, like not willing to let something go.

They get stuck in a thought patterns called

preservation and they can't let things go.

And sometimes that's a thing that a lot of people miss look and don't spend enough time looking at.

It's not just working memory.

It's not that at all.

Sometimes they really can't let something go.

And that I think is a big part of me looking at how is this affecting you and what's the difference between how you were in terms of pre-morbid intelligence.

What I mean by that is, is that

Someone reads and through their reading, I can tell what their intelligence was before any injury, before any addiction.

It's kind of like reading has shown to show with

people at least that are english speaking uh what your pre-morbid intelligence is so if your pre-morbid intelligence doesn't match your actual testing describe to the viewers what pre-morbid intelligence is pre-morbid intelligence is what your intelligence should have been would have been if you didn't get through uh experiencing the trauma that you went through so it was basically before you had your drug use or your trauma where you were right before

Exactly.

And what your capacity was, what you're capable of.

And now why doesn't it match?

It's not reading comprehension.

It's reading out loud.

you know i am the chairman of a healthcare corporation so i'm not completely devoid of talent and if you would have checked pre-drug use what my capacity would have been i'd be homeless yes i think that you're you have to use the proper norms and the clinical history is at play if someone has like reading issues you certainly wouldn't use that to determine their capacity so to speak excellent what would you use

You'd use a clinical interview.