Rick Perry

Most people didn't know I had that.

My wife did.

But other than that, even my senior staff in my offices through the year, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor, governor, they did not know that I had this challenge of maybe sleeping three and a half, four hours a night being –

anxious at times to the point of being never dysfunctional.

But from my perspective, probably some people out there in the political world said, hell, Perry, you were dysfunctional the whole damn time.

What are you talking about?

Anyway, beside the point.

I had the treatment.

I had the brain scan going in.

I had the brain scan a week later.

I had the brain scan at six months.

The first brain scan, they said, look, your brain looks pretty good for a 73-year-old guy.

He said, you know, you're actually in pretty good shape.

You don't have a lot of atrophy.

You got some mild atrophy, but your brain looks pretty good.

The week after scan showed a 27% increase.

in the prefrontal cortex of my brain.

That's where your focus, your concentration, your emotions reside.

I had a 27% increase in that prefrontal cortex activity.

My six month scan, I have a dear friend who's a neurosurgeon from Tyler,