Dr. Frank George

Why would that be better?

It would be better because he would be diminished.

And so his underlying personality disorder, the malignant narcissism would be getting diminished and he'd becoming less in terms of what he was able to do, just everything about his personality.

But with frontotemporal dementia, the person augments because it affects a different part of the brain.

Alzheimer's affects the hippocampus, mostly the memory areas of the brain.

That's why people forget.

And frontotemporal dementia, it affects the frontal, frontotemporal dementia.

And the areas of the brain from the frontal cortex are involved with judgment,

inhibition of what one might want to do, the confabulations that we see, a lot of these things are regulated by the frontal cortex.

One way that I often describe it, which has a lot of validity to it, is that it's like drinking.

It's almost like having too much to drink.

You know, people say, oh, I have a couple of drinks.

I get, you know, uninhibited, more social sort of thing.

Well, you're becoming disinhibited.

And you get to the point where, you know, the classic, you know, hold my beer.

And then they do something really stupid.

That type of disinhibition is exactly what we see with frontotemporal dementia.

But in Donald Trump's case, what's being disinhibited is his underlying malignant narcissism.

And that's the horrific danger of the whole situation, because then you talk to us about some of the behaviors you've observed that would illustrate this.

Sure.