Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a sleeping disorder that makes a person immediately fall asleep without knowing. This narcolepsy attacks may last from 15 seconds or more. It may also occur many times a day, like for example in the video, a man had 60 narcolepsy attacks a day. This guy fell asleep a lot throughout the filming of the video because of the narcolepsy disorder. His wife had to be around him all the time because he even fell asleep at the mall and museums. Persons that suffer from this are very vulnerable of having accidents because they may fall asleep walking, driving, eating or having a talk. This is very dangerous because they may provoke huge accidents. It is necessary for a person who suffers from narcolepsy to be accompany of someone every day because these attacks can happen at any moment and in any place. This is a dangerous sleeping disorder that many people are vulnerable to suffer and deal with even if they have a good amount of sleep. Narcolepsy should be taken seriously because it may cause huge accidents and lead to death. People that are victims of this sleeping disorder must be with a person at all times because as said before, they may have up to 60 narcolepsy attacks per day that may lest from 15 seconds to a couple of minutes.

DREAMS

There is nothing more relaxing and joyful than sleeping. Everytime I get any type of sleep, I enjoy it to the fullest. Of course I enjoy sleeping 9 hours, than taking a 20 minute nap or a 5 hours of sleep during the week days to go to school. The more I sleep, the better I will function the next day and better the energy. Most of the time, I go to sleep wishing I will be able to wake up remembering what I dreamt, but it is rare I remember. Dreaming is one of the most exciting things about life. Every time a dream occurs in someone's sleep, it means the brain is processing information of the day before. REM occurs, which means rapid eye movement in which the brain passes many images and we enter into a stage of paralysis. The dreams we dream occur in the parietal lobe and this creates them, but people who do not dream is because they have suffered from a stroke or a damage in the parietal lobe and will only dream again as time passes by. Its said that dreaming has a significance, surely it is not 100% known what it is.. maybe it is answers our mind is looking, the future it hopes, or the past it regrets.. Nobody knows. Dreaming is fun and makes your mind be relaxed during your sleep time. Personally, I love sleeping, but I enjoy it and love it the most when I dream. <3

work cited: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/84782746.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DIWSAsset%26k%3D2%26d%3DAA1747D0965B1B3D6F5CD9C459F9F8E6E0F86D2CB2A0EFC4DE3E6622E8752A9FE30A760B0D811297&imgrefurl=http://www.punchstock.com/asset_images/84782746&usg=__gt9j0bLTs6iSMmUZuqitygkXoMQ=&h=337&w=506&sz=34&hl=en&start=30&sig2=KbrnVvsTBFArYpMCAmzWkw&zoom=1&tbnid=Bwpp2yzRtIL3gM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=195&ei=CMuGTav5LcKbtwfRlcy5BA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dteenage%2Bsleeping%2Bat%2Ba%2Bbeach%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D625%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1182&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=417&oei=AcuGTfCIFISUtweR9OTCBA&page=3&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:30&tx=11&ty=45&biw=1024&bih=625

ALONE

People are tortured in many different ways. In the video I watched, I saw a type of torture I never had thought about because it was not violent, this was called sensory deprivation. This type of punishment, expirement or torture consisted on having someone locked in a room without using none of its senses. The person could stay there for hours, days, weeks or months and not have any type of contact or speaking with anyone, nothing to hear, no smelling, no touching and no interaction what so ever. Patients who were victims of this experiment became desperate after a while, since they were not able to perform any action. At the beginning of their journey, they sang and spoke to themselves, but later on their desperation became worse. People begin to allusinate things and become very worried. This deprivation gets on their nerves, and even though this experiment only lasts for 48 hours, the patients become very anxious and desperate for it to end. It seems an easy experiment, being without contact or communication with anyone and with no interaction, but really it is not. Anxiety and desire of the experiment to finish becomes a person crazy. Sensory Deprivation is one of the worse tortures ever. 


Work Cited:
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SYNESTHESIA

1. Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor.

2. grapheme-color synesthesia

Grapheme → color synesthesia is a form of synesthesia in which an individual's perception of numbers and letters is associated with the experience of colors. Like all forms of synesthesia, grapheme → color synesthesia is involuntary, consistent, and memorable. (Definition of google)

3. ordinal-linguistic personification

 Is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters. (Definition Wikipedia) 

4. number-form synesthesia

A number form is a mental map of numbers, which automatically and involuntarily appears whenever someone who experiences number-forms thinks of numbers. (Definition of Wikipedia)

5. sound-color synesthesia

color synesthesia is "something like fireworks": voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks trigger color and simple shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound stimulus ends. (Definition of Wikipedia)

6. lexical-gustatory synesthesia

one of the rarer forms of synesthesia, in which spoken or written words evoke vivid sensations of taste, sometimes including temperature and texture. (Definition of Wikipedia)

Work Cited

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html

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Mental Abilities- Genius, Savant. Autism

1. Explain in detail what "savant syndrome" means.
----> The syndrome of Savant occurs when a person of low intelligence is very talented in a specific area. This syndrome is associated with autism and approximately half of the children who have autism are also victims of the savant syndrome. It is been tested than more boys are associated with this syndrome, than girls. Researches have been done to know the cause of the savant syndrome and have come up with two theories: 1) A change in genes. 2) A damage in the left hemisphere of the brain that affects the right hemisphere. Savant children are very intelligent in areas like mathematical calculations, vision, art and speed. There is nothing bad about being a Savant child since they have a very high IQ in a specific category. 

2. What does genius mean?  Explain the difference between genius and savant.
---->According to the dictionary, a genius is someone who has an exceptional intellectual ability and capacity and is very skilled in any field. The difference between a genius and a savant varies because a genius is skilled and talented in many fields and a savant has a low intelligence and is only skilled in one field or area. 


3. What is a stroke and how could it affect your mental functioning?
---->A stroke occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery or a blood vessel breaks and interrupts the blood flow to the brain. If this occurs, then the brain cells begin to die and not do the function they are required. Depending on the part of the brain in which the stroke occurs, the mental function can have negative effects. If the stroke occurs in the parietal lobe then the speech is affected. 

4. What is a functional MRI and how does it help us understand brain activity?
---->The functional MRI is Magnetic Resonance Imaging that helps physicians to diagnose brain functions and treat medical conditions. It helps us understand brain activity because it produces images of the different parts of the brain like its tissues, bones and organs. It helps diagnose tumors, diseases, etc. 


5. What is the corpus callosum and what role does it play in your brain's activity?
---->The corpus callosum are a lot of nerves that connect the right side of the brain with the left side. It plays the role of communication between both sides. 


6. What is epilepsy and how might it affect your brain's abilities?
---->Epilepsy is a medical condition that produces seizures affecting mental and physical functions. 
7. What is autism?
---->Autism is a general disease of people who lack of communication and relation with other people, interaction with themselves and think they are different. Autistic people are pretty much different than others and have a view of the world different than ours. 
8. What is Asperger's Syndrome?
---->The Asperger's Syndrome is a syndrome that relates to autism. The people who suffer from this are socially isolated and have repetitive speech. They are very clumsy and lack of interest.  




Work Cited:
http://www.healthofchildren.com/S/Savant-Syndrome.html
http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=myth
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=bodymr
http://www.dyslexia.org/corpus.shtml
http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/about/index.cfm
http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/autism-and-asperger-syndrome-an-introduction/what-is-autism.aspx
http://www.aspergers.com/aspclin.htm

Accidental Genius

Accidents are not always bad. Most of them have negative effects in people, but there exist exceptions. By watching the video, I learned what savant is, which is a person whose ability level may be very low but excels in one exact subject. George is an example of a savant. His ability is very impressive for everyone, even for himself. George is able to say the day of the week of any year, even 2,000 years ago only by making all the calculations needed in his head.  He knows about this without even studying what day of the week was it 500 years ago for example. He is a genius. There was also Kim, who was a girl that could memorize 9 books at a time, when normally people can not even memorize one. She reads her book very quickly and ay read 200 pages or more in an hour. These people have something in common and is a brain injury. They are said to be victims of autism, but that makes them be accidentally genius, because they are very intelligent. Savant people are very smart, intelligent and genius!




work Cited
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Make Me a Genius

Can any ordinary child become a genius? Yes, any child can become a genius. Susan is an example of this. In her childhood she was very normal, but she became genius when her father trained her to become a chess champion. She had to devote her life to chess, even though only men were "capable" of playing because they thought women could not handle thinking in their left brain. Susan proved them wrong by beating chess champions when she was just a child. As she grew older, her brain became very photographic. Susan was able to handle and play 5 chess games in her brain and she may even play chess by phone and without seeing the chess board. She could beat chess champions who were men without having the chess board in front of her. She only need the board in her man. Susan is totally a genius. It is amazing how Susan has this ability to chunk a lot of information in her brain and become a genius. With dedication, devotion and desire it is possible to become a genius. Stimulating a person since childhood is the best thing to do to favorite someone's future. Ordinary persons may become genius. 

Work Cited-
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