Hilary Shea
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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So if he actually got a perfect score, a 30 out of 30, it honestly tells me nothing.
nothing, nothing really positive or negative because a 30, so a 30 out of 30 on the Mocha, you should really be able to achieve that with even people who have dementia, who come into my office, who already have a diagnosis can still sometimes get 30 out of 30 on that test.
I actually gave it to my five-year-old.
He was five at the time just to be like, Hey, guess what?
Like my son almost passed this test and he's
He doesn't know what an analog clock is, and yet he missed points for that, but he could still do well enough.
So 30 out of 30 doesn't actually tell me much.
The fact that he has taken it multiple times over the course of a year and a half tells me way more.
I mean, if I were a good clinician, I wouldn't give it, um, that you're not, you know, there is something with test retest reliability.
The more that we give a test, the more potential there is that someone who took the test six months ago could remember things with a Mocha.
I will say there are multiple versions.
They test the same skills, but have different animals, let's say.
right it could be a giraffe one day but yeah yeah so we do have a few different versions um but it's not it's not clinically relevant so even if the president in the united states was like i really want to take this test i would try to steer him in another direction and say hey you know you did so great the last time we don't even need to take that test we know you're fantastic there's no good clinical reason to give it unless they are tracking
decline, possibly medication use.
There's always that question of, is he taking this new medication?
Is he getting some medication none of us even know about?
And so people who are in studies will likely get the MoCA or whatever tests they're being given multiple times more frequently than the general population would.
So if they're actually doing it, not just to say, sure, President Trump, if you want it, let's give it to you.
They're looking for something, whether it's decline or medication, how is he responding to medication?
Mm-hmm.
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