Synesthesia and Savant Syndrome questions.

Synesthesia

1. Synesthesia is a neurological disorder in which one particular aspect or action involuntary causes the sensation or reminds of another.

2. Grapheme-Color-Synesthesia is one of the main types of the neurologic disorder; it is when a person reminds him/herself of letters in relation to their experience with colors.

3. Ordinal-Linguistic is a type of Synesthesia in which the person remembers particular dates, month, days, letters, and numbers by relating them to personalities.

4. Number-Form is a type of Synesthesia in which a person creates a mental map of numbers while performing any mathematical exercise.

5. Sound-Color is a kind of Synesthesia in which a person is reminded by a color by a particular sound.

6. Lexical- Gustatory Synesthesia is a mental disorder in which a person feels a particular taste while reading or being reminded of a particular word.

.                                     Savant Syndrome

1. Savant Syndrome is a mental disorder in which a person lack on most basic abilities, but is extremely outstanding on one or few of them, half of the people with the Savant Syndrome have autism, and most of them lack on social abilities.

2. A Genius is a person which has high intellectual capability in relation to the majority of IQ levels. The difference between a Genius and a Savant, is that a Savant lacks on most abilities however is extremely good at others, while a Genius is very good in most or all of them, however does not emphasize in a specific area such as Savants do.

3. A stroke is a cerebral accident which causes damage and provokes lack of blood flow on the  brain, this may affect the victim of the accident with taking away basic speech abilities, remembering important aspects of his/her daily life, it can even cause death.

4. Functional MRI is today, one of the most modern brain scans,  it provides us information by detecting the change of blood flow of a particular person’s brain.

5. The Corpus Callosum is a bundle of fiber which helps to connect the right brain with the left brain, it is truly essential for life.

6. Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person suffers from high neuronal activity. It’s changes may produce sleepiness, and change of mood.

7. Autism is a neurological disorder in which a person suffers from social interaction, he/she basically lives in his/her own world. The ability of brain processing, lacks in a victim  of  autism.

8. Asperger’s Syndrome is a type of autism in which a person does not have cognitive development, social interaction, and suffers from negative and repetitive patterns in relation to behavior.