Mental Abilities: Genius, Savant and Autism

Mental Abilities: Genius, Savant and Autism

By: Jean Luc M.

1. Explain in detail what "savant syndrome" means.

I believe that a Savant syndrome is a syndrome born with, which gives the individual physical and mental abilities superior from the normal people. Usually, scientist will infer that this people have received their power and abilities from a shot down from their left side of their brain, and this activates completely the rights side. 

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2. What does genius mean?  Explain the difference between genius and savant.

Genius is someone who has become, or has natural ideas and has become the way he is by the time in which he has constantly done some stuff. While the Savant is a person who is born with the special abilities which make him spark in between the normal people.

3. What is a stroke and how could it affect your mental functioning?

A stroke is a block in the veins conducting to the head which are product of a lack of blood to the brain. How could this affect the mind?  Well I believe that it specifically affects the mind in the mechanical and the logical thinking sides. Why? Easy, because there is no blood running to the part of the brain that needs it. Their actions slow, and the mind changes.

4. What is a functional MRI and how does it help us understand brain activity?

An MRI is a test done by doctors to evaluate the condition in which the brain is. It helps us understand brain activities while the doctors show a series of item to the person, and the computers show the place in the brain which the sensors have been activated; So it gives in depth detail of who where the brain activity is exactly when an action or thing is presented to the humans. 

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5. What is the corpus callosum and what role does it play in your brain's activity?

The corpus callosum (Latin: tough body), also known as the colossal commissural, is a wide, flat bundle of neural fibers beneath the cortex in the eutherian brain at the longitudinal fissure. It connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres and facilitates inter-hemispheric communication. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum) It is important to the brain activity because it gives the brain the ideas and its where both the right and left hemispheres unite. I mean it’s where the ideas are organized from both sides of the brain.

6. What is epilepsy and how might it affect your brain's abilities?

Epilepsy is a syndrome suffered by people which have problems with their nervous systems. This concludes into losing track of time, and many other psychological effects. It affects the brain in the way in which you stop thinking rationally, and the body goes crazy. As for instance they body shakes and shakes and the brain too, as the brain is nervous. 

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7. What is autism?

Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain's normal development of social and communication skills. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

8. What is Asperger's Syndrome?

It’s when a kid or child has problems with anxiety, and doesn’t know how to conclude very well. It is really difficult to the people who behold this sickness to conclude very well, as they are giving simple instructions and signs.