Accidental Genius

This video is one of my favorites because I leerned something new. This is what savants are. According to Dr. Darold Treffert, there are three types of savants: a normal savant who has a skill that is not useful, a gifted savant who has a conspicuous skill, and a prodigious savant who has an amazing skill. In this video several stories were narrated but that one that mostly impacted me was the one narrating Tommy McHigh life. He had an accident that caused him brain impairment. After this he became a savant. He was left him because he became obsessive with painting. Dr. Alice Flahery, from Hardvard University studied him and concludes that the bleeding caused by the damage on Tommy’s brain had caused pressure in his frontal and temporal lobes, producing instability and creativity. I believe it is very cool to be a savant but sometimes I would like to be consider normal then to be alone as Tommy is.

Make Me A Genius
This video was not my favorite but, it was very interesting to know that a person can memorize many chess games. Susan Polgar would prove she could be a master of the chess, when only men were considering being good on it.  When she was little, she was messing around her house and accidently found a chess game. She became fascinated with this and asked her father to teach her how to play.  As asked he did, and she became a genius on it. He took her to were he played, where only man played. At a young age Susan was the best chess player in the world. Which I believe is something AMAZING! She became better and better and at the age of 21, Susan was the #1 chess player in between 600 male players. But she did not stop. She defeated USA champion in less than 60 seconds. Although some won’t believe her story is amazing because it is related with chess, it is actually VERY VERY interesting. Without dough someone can become a genius in an area if they are constantly doing it…

BORN GENIUS

In this video we saw an 8 year onld boy called mark who can play the piano as a professional person does. He’s life of a pianist started because hes mom cultivated it since he was very little because she wanted to be a pianist but because of her belief she could not. Since he was very little his mom stimulated marks brain. According to doctor godfrey mark is a genius. He says that one in a million is gifted the way mark was.  I think that knowing about marks life is very interesting. Personally I do believe he is a genius and want to be like him. It is also very interesting the passion this kid has for what he does. I believe it’s amazing that he practices 8 hours a day and that he knows from memory 40 songs. I also believe that it was a very touching moment when we saw in the video that he had the chance to meet his favorite piano artist.

Homosexuality

Its very difficult do be ho you are when society judges you for every action or decision you take. Being your self is something you have to do EVERYTIME! During this week in class we watch a video of Homosexuality. The video narrates the life of two identical twins. The interesting part that one of the boy likes cars and the other one likes dolls, both of them are boys. My first reaction to this was, oh, that kid is weird. But then I started to think why we need to judge someone. We hate when people criticizes us, so why do it to another person just because of their sexuality? I personally do not believe gay people chose to be gay, in fact they are born gay. In this video I learn that baby boys are exposed to be gay when they are born because something of their moms can be passed on to them. Learning this was very interesting because it made me be tolerant to people’s sexuality. Not only I am going to respect this people but, now when I hear someone talking bad about them I will try to make that person regret what they are saying. Personally I believe that gay people are the bravest because being against the principles of society must be tough.

Mind of a Murderer

This video made me see murders in a different way because before this video I thought they were crazy, insane, heartless people but, after watching this video I understood their behaviors and could actually judge their actions in a fair way. I personally it was interesting to know why a murderer does what they do (kill people). According to Dr. Dorothy Lewis, there is an explanation for their criminal behavior. After conducting evaluations on the subject, she discovered that there are three reasons behind their criminal behavior: brain damage, abuse, and mental illnesses. How in the world will thinks this is actually the reason… well in the video some examples are shown to demonstrate the world what really happens inside the mind of a murderer.  An example is Terrance Rainright. He killed his wife because according to him she was flirting on the phone. He stabbed her. Dr. Lewis studied Terrance’s case, which actually did match her studies. Terrance Rainright had brain damage from a car accident, his mother had abused him when he was a child, and he suffered from bipolarity and depression. As a child, Terrance had witnessed how his mother was sexually abused by his father and also how his mother stabbed her own husband. But because this area of study (psychology) is not 100% accurate, nor is it reliable, people cannot declare that killers are evil because they have developed mental problems. I personally believe that more studies should be made because people who are very religious might not like this idea or don’t believe on it. I personally believe it is just that we know how the feedback on why this people react the way they do, but strongly believe that this should not be use to just peoples bad decisions.

Living With Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. The tree types of brain injuries are the contusion which is bruise, the axonal injury which is the damage of neurons, and the bleeding inside the brain which basically is the accumulation of pressure inside the brain. It’s amazing that almost a quarter of a million of Americans are hospitalized every year with brain injuries.

The most common causes of TBI include violence, transportation accidents, construction, and sports. Between 1.6 and 3.8 million traumatic brain injuries each year are a result of sports accidents.

Diagnosis is suspected based on lesion circumstances and clinical evidence, most prominently a neurological examination, for example checking whether the pupils constrict normally in response to light and assigning a Glasgow Coma Score.

The people who were in this video really touched my heart, specially Brain. Let’s better say he not only touched my heart but he changed my life… I realize that sometimes I’m mad because of something little and say I hate my life or something like that but, know I want to be just like him, A HAPPY PERSON! Although he has a brain injury he is a lovely person, especially with his son. He does not care he has a problem; he’s always the same person.

                                        MIND READING

Have you ever imagine what will you do if you could reed someone’s mind? It will be very interesting to ask someone what they think about you and what they actually say… Mind reading is assuming special knowledge of the intentions or thoughts of others. Mind reading is considered a myth, but with the advance in technology scientists have actually managed to look inside people's brain and understanding what they are thinking about. It is common to think that mind reading is only for people with super natural abilities, but in reality scientists have been working on exploring the brain and actually analyzing our thoughts. Now through functional MRI it makes it possible for scientists to do thought identification (mind reading). When people are put to the test they are made to think about an object for example hammer, then what the MRI does is detect the parts of the brain that you brain uses to detect hammer, and n people it is mostly the same parts. Scientists can also tell what people’s intentions are. For example they might show you two numbers and you think either of subtracting or adding, the MRI will detect what were your intentions in that specific situation. Other MRIs can tell if you are lying or not, others tell whether you had seen a place before or not. These technological advances will soon be used in criminal investigations to know if a person is lying about what they are ask to testify.  This will be very good because problems will be solve quickly and the people who are innocent will not pay for others bad actions…