Sleeping Problem

Sleeping problem

Problems when one try’s to sleep may occur to anyone, but there are very few people in this planet that just get to much unexpected sleep. There is a man in England which he just cannot control his sleep, it’s a rare disease which one person may be perfectly fine but you just turn around and you look at him and he is asleep in less than 5 seconds. Its abnormal than a person sleeps in less than 2 minutes but imagine sleeping in less than 5 seconds and can happened at any time, the subject with the problem explains that it normally happens around 60 times a day, he has his wife that takes care of him but still it’s not enough because when he is walking and later sleeps he falls down and can hit himself in the head, in the documentary video he had bruises in the face from falling asleep. Poor man, he can’t really enjoy life because of the constant sleep, the video explained that when the person gets exited his body goes to sleep, so when he went to the science museum he was asleep for most of the time there.

Dreaming

Dreaming

During dreaming people take and release their mind in a place where there is no limits. People don’t really know why people dream nor sleep but it is said that you dream because you got to make brain cells bake again and to discover and do as you please in your mind. Still scientist don’t know what makes you dream but when sleeping there are several stages such as stage one, two, three, and four. But there is also a stage called REM or also rapid eye movement which you are easily awakens. During each stage that goes down it can last about 15 minutes or more and it is harder to awaken someone during the stage is lower. People say that we need dreams to live or if not we would be really bored and we would not discover, dreams feel very fast but actually we dream in parts, it changes during the stages move, the stages change around five times when your sleep eight hours. In the rapid eye movement your eyes start to move that’s why it was that name and next time you awaken someone don’t do it in the REM stage because its bad.

Alone

Alone

Many scientists have always wondered what happens to the body or to your brain when you are alone and you are not able to interact with other people. Who do people do to maintain in a stable mode, in other words be cool. The video placed several people for 48 yours alone in a room without any form of doing something productive and the results where shocking most of them lost their minds and still many governments us the alone status for torturing because they can’t manage with the stress and times seems to be forever. The video proved and demonstrated many interesting thing such as the effects of being alone, some effects where that at the beginning people felt conferrable but they later started to felt depressed and that time when slowly later they later trying to sleep but they were to stress that they started to talk alone and some of the patients were crying and had trouble sleeping, in these extreme conditions is where the torture proses takes over and the people that are being experimented are able to do as they please because they are weak. Being alone for most of the people is something they can’t manage because since young we never were too much time alone.

Mental Abilities

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

is a rare condition in which people with developmental disorders have one or more areas of expertise, ability, or brilliance that are in contrast with the individual's overall limitations. Savants have problems with the society because their brains is not prepare for it only in one material. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome

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w     what does genius mean?  Explain the difference between genius and savant.

is something or someone embodying exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of unprecedented insight. The difference is that Genius are good at almost everything while savants are extremely good at only one or two things and they are considered pretty stupid for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius

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

It is a rapid loss of brain functions, because of the lack of oxygen in the system or the brain, and it can cause permanent neurological damage. As a result, the affected area of the brain is unable to function, leading to inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body, inability to understand or formulate speech, or an inability to see one side of the visual field. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke

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

MRI uses a powerful magnetic field, radio frequency pulses and a computer to produce detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone and virtually all other internal body structures. The images can then be examined on a computer monitor, transmitted electronically, printed or copied to a CD. MRI does not use ionizing radiation (x-rays). http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=fmribrain

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

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 interhemispheric communication. It is the largest white matter structure in the brain.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum

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

These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy

7.       What is autism?

causes kids to experience the world differently from the way most other kids do. It's hard for kids with autism to talk with other people and express themselves using words. Kids who have autism usually keep to themselves and many can't communicate without special help. http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/brain/autism.html.

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w    What is Asperger's Syndrome?

is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and atypical use of language are frequently reported. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia: its a onvoluntary action in which it is supposed that it isnt controlled by the brain, and the real infromation isnt what your body actually feals nor its perseves. Also its know because of perseving color by hearing or feeling.http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/. 

grapheme-color synesthesia:  it’s a form of synesthesia but its not as large as it, the grapheme is the perceiving colors for letters and numbers. And its reported that the colors that you see are always different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthesia

ordinal-linguistic personification: is another form of synesthesia but it orders the sequence of things such as days, months, letters and ordinal numbers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personification.

number-form synesthesia: it’s a mental map of numbers, it appears to certain people when they think or imagine numbers and they start to line. Believe to appear in frontal lobe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form.

sound-color synesthesia: people with this penomen are able to actually see music, when music play they are able to see the different colors of music. The colors clos to the tone to music appears and they experience music. http://undacovabear.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/sound-colour-synesthesia/

lexical-gustatory synesthesia:  people with the gustatory are able to taste words, when they think of a word they would taste it as if they would be eating something as source, salty or sweet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical-gustatory_synesthesia

Genius

Genius

Savants, people that have troubles on regular task but they are extremely good at only one specific thing, it may include something related to art, math, or creativity. Those people are very weird to comprehend and also there are very few on this planet. Before they used to called them stupid because when they used to take IQ test theirs where very low. Savants prove to scientist that human brains are the part in that body that actually impossible is nothing. Every Savant has a mayor problem, for example there is a Savant in which the move called Rain man was based on him which it is real the guy can read a page in 10 seconds and knows more then 9000 books of memory people would considered him genius but if you really take a close look at him the guy cannot take care of him, he needs his father and he’s about 60 years old. Savants people with great qualities but it takes a big price to be one of them.