1. Explain in detail what "savant syndrome" means.
The savant syndrom can be gotten under certain circumstances and genetically. It means that the person is highly brilliant in a specific task but lacks in all others. Half the savants in the world have developed autism. It happens when the electro magnetic impulses in the left dominant side of the brain slow down to a almost non functional point.2. What does genius mean? Explain the difference between genius and savant.
A genius is a person who excells at most areas or a specific area while maintaining a greater strength in all other aspects. A genius is characterized for having an IQ of over 130. The difference between a Savant and a Genius is that Savants have a downside to being prominent in an area, and that is lacking inmensly in all other areas.
3. What is a stroke and how could it affect your mental functioning?Its a blockage in an artery that deprives the brain from oxygen, and thus disabling speech, and numbness, and eye vission loss. It could be permanent if not treated immediately, because the brain can not be deprived of oxygen.
3. What is a stroke and how could it affect your mental functioning?Its a blockage in an artery that deprives the brain from oxygen, and thus disabling speech, and numbness, and eye vission loss. It could be permanent if not treated immediately, because the brain can not be deprived of oxygen.
4. What is a functional MRI and how does it help us understand brain activity?
It is a more specialized MRI that measures the hemodynamic response (change in blood flow) related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans or other animals. It is one of the most recently developed forms of neuroimaging. It helps us understand the mapping of the bran to a more detailed level related to blood and oxygen movement.
5. What is the corpus callosum and what role does it play in your brain's activity?
Its the flat bundle of neural fibers beneath the brain. Contains the most white mass, and it has been proven that it is generally bigger in musicians and artists, and it can be cut to reduce epilepsia.
6. What is epilepsy and how might it affect your brain's abilities?
Its a common chronic neurological disorder that damages the brain by making the part affected numb and facial expressions from that side are paralyzed.
7. What is autism?
Its a disorder of neural development and it affects and impairs social behaviour and social interaction and comunication. 50% of all savants worldwide have it.8. What is Asperger's Syndrome?Similar to Autism but detracts from it because of the linguistic and interest of those who have it. Some kids are inmensly interested in how molecular structure is at a early age.
WEB SITES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius
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