1. Explain in detail what "savant syndrome" means.
syndrome in which people who despite serious mental or physical disability have quite remarkable, and sometimes spectacular, talents.
http://www.psy.dmu.ac.uk/drhiles/Savant%20Syndrome.htm
2. What does genius mean? Explain the difference between genius and savant.
Web:
someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality;brilliance, ussually having anunusual mental ability who is skilled in any field, have exceptional creative ability and natural talent.
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The difference is that a genius is average or above average in any area of their life, buts savants are only good at on specific thing, one are, and have a mental disability, strugling in other areas.
3. What is a stroke and how could it affect your mental functioning?
An acute medical emergency caused by the rupture or blockage of the artery.
http://www.womensheart.org/content/stroke/what_is_a_stroke.asp
It affects mental function by affecting your coordination ability, partial facial paralisis,
poor depth perception, hand-eye coordination and short term memory, poor decision making and unhealthy, the process of thinking logically and reasoning, short attention span, reeding and speaking illiteracy, and makes you do things slower, depending on the part that is affected.
4. What is a functional MRI and how does it help us understand brain activity?
Another name for it is functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging which is the brain imaging technique that scans by measuring magnetic changes in the flow of blood to cells in the brain.
www.tuition.com.hk/psychology/f.htm It helps doctor to diagnose deseases and helps them know which treatment they may use. It also is used to explore the anatomy of the brain, how it functions, the effects of a stroke or trauma on this functions, the developement and its effect of tumors on brains, and guide the planning of surgery, Radiation therapy, or other surgical treatments for the brain.
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=fmribrain
5. What is the corpus callosum and what role does it play in your brain's activity?
It is a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.
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It allows communication between the two hemispheres, it also works in allocation of tasks to either hemispheres of the brain on the basis on their programming.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/corpus-callosum-function.html
6. What is epilepsy and how might it affect your brain's abilities?
It is the tendency to have recurrent seizures caused by a sudden burst of excess electrical activity in the brain, causing a temporary disruption in the normal message passing between brain cells.
http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/what-is-epilepsy
It affects the brain’s because the messages becoming halted or mixed up. It affects the ability of the person to store memory, memory loss, verbal memory which he cant remember words, or he cant remember who he has seen, and trouble focusing attention for a long time.
http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/how-epilepsy-affects-the-brain-and-leads-to-memory-loss-290902.html
7. What is autism? moderately rare condition resulting from a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. A neurological disorder that causes communicative, social and cognitive deficits.
8. What is Asperger's Syndrome?
Syndrome in which individuals have normal intelligence and language development, but have impaired social skills, unable to communicate effectively with others, and have poor coordination.
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