How a Baseball Injury Made A Genius (Savant Syndrome)

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Savant syndrome is a strange condition that gives people unique abilities. Although savant syndrome is very rare reported cases gain genius-like abilities in narrow domains. But how can we explain savant syndrome? And could we induce savant syndrome in normal people?
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Savant syndrome is characterized by unique skills in art, music, mechanics, calendar calculation or maths. Savant syndrome can be acquired through injuries or frontotemporal dementia or be developed in people with autism spectrum disorder. In acquired savant syndrome and autism spectrum disorder, unique connections in the brain led to the condition. In savant syndrome, we often find that the left hemisphere is damaged and the right brain hemisphere has to compensate for this. Based on this observation, we can partially induce savant syndrome like abilities through transcranial magnetic stimulation. Many questions concerning savant syndrome remain but this condition is truly amazing.
0:00-1:10 Intro
1:10-1:56 What is Savant Syndrome?
1:56-4:02 Acquiring Savant Syndrome
4:02-5:46 Savant Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder
5:46-8:39 Can we Induce Savant Syndrome?
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@allergictobs9751 Жыл бұрын

No wonder we feel the need to smash our heads to walls out of frustration when we can't seem to understand or study something.

@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын

time to fix a magnet on the left and right of your head..

@maduroholdings Жыл бұрын

Yo! That was a brilliant correlation

@ratedr7845 Жыл бұрын

yeah, we're trying to course correct

@VersionBest Жыл бұрын

ROFLMAO lol nice 👌 👍 👏 😄

@tajiklad Жыл бұрын

ahhahahahah

@quasar960 2 жыл бұрын

I got punched in the head once and woke up and became smarter too. The next time I ducked Holy crap! I’ve never gotten over 30 likes on a comment let alone current 2.4k thanks!! Haha that punch to the head really did me some good

@Patara. 2 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

@kristymay1342 2 жыл бұрын

It’s not funny

@melea9374 Жыл бұрын

@@kristymay1342 Yes it is

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 Жыл бұрын

O man that's funny . I hauled off and punched this guy charging me. He was chubs when I hit him square in the face it felt like I punched a bag of marshmallows! I gasped...then keyed in on his forehead! LoL...I've never been hit that hard before. I'm surprised I didn't drop .but he hit me pretty square about 3 times I could feel my brain bouncing back in forth in my skull....I'm a little smarter too! Ha ha ha....it was over a cigarette! The next day I ran across him offered him a cigarette .. we laughed. Jimbo ( 250lbs) took off his hat and said...look what you did to me...you kicked my butt.. I felt lucky to walk away from that! Anyway...his whole forehead was one big scab! LoL....I only weigh a buck fifty

@quasar960 Жыл бұрын

@@kristymay1342 haha you stopped by to type “it’s not funny?” now that’s funny Karen

@thesoundpurist Жыл бұрын

Had the same accident but I became even dummier than I was before.

@willmerguzmanrodriguez6635 Жыл бұрын

Same bro

@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын

you can order neodymium magnets and fit one on your left head

@norule0 Жыл бұрын

life is unfair lol

@INNO222 Жыл бұрын

@@fidelcatsro6948 I'm going to try. Thanks.

@ph_hacker_d Жыл бұрын

*dumber Sorry dude/girl 😂😂

@niyaalott6436 Жыл бұрын

Bro really got some sense knocked into his head. 😂

@jujubarbour9476 8 ай бұрын

My son is 11 now and is on the autism spectrum, he knew his numbers 1 through 50 and could count to 25 in Spanish and knew his letters before he was 2 but he had the most trouble with simple things. Now at his age he’s in the top 3 percent of his middle school in math and is part of an academically intellectually gifted program for math, can solve a scrambled Rubin cube and put a mario Lego square together in 6 hours but can’t tie his shoe. It really amazing how the brain functions

@JEsterCW 7 ай бұрын

Solving rubiks isnt anything fancy tho lol, you can solve it with repeating only one algorithm without any fancy knowledge.

@charlestannehill7537 7 ай бұрын

@@JEsterCWit's not just about the cube. And just because you know there's an algorithm to solve a rubiks cube, most people don't even know what an algorithm is.

@charlestannehill7537 7 ай бұрын

I completely understand. As a child, I excelled in specific areas (mainly mechanics, physics, etc.), but always was the odd one out. Never fit in. I was different, but they couldn't pinpoint what. They took me to therapists who said I had adhd. And autism wasn't a thing back in the 80's or 90's (at least the awareness of it). I mean, I maxed out the Gt (general technical) sub section of the military asvab at 17. More than people with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering. At 18 I was rebuilding hmmwv engines without any trouble. So it was clear I was different. Now at 38 with a 12 year old officially diagnosed with autism, I see everything in him that I was. I think maybe I subconsciously copied others to fit in and that's who I've become now. That's the only way I was able to fool people into stop treating me like a child. After realizing I might be autistic, I obsessively took test after test to confirm, and sure as shit, all the websites said I raised all the red flags and should seek professional help. But I'm too scared. The closure. And I don't see what benefits it would do for me now. But just know as your son grows, hell find ways to adapt. Like I did. And my son will.

@overl0ad816 7 ай бұрын

@@JEsterCW lets take a step back. 6 hours is a long time to solve a rubiks cube. If you memorize a simple algorithm, it would take

@JEsterCW 7 ай бұрын

@@charlestannehill7537 They do know cause they do attend to a school *(just joke, i know watcha mean)*

@SantanaBanana47 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how something like dementia can actually lead to greater abilities in other areas

@Aubatron 9 ай бұрын

It makes sense, with autism too. Damage or other reasons causing different parts of the brain that normally have good connections, to be weak. So, the brain compensates and makes strong connections within that specific area of the brain. Resulting in specialization, while most people's brains are general use tools.

@HeadNtheClouds 8 ай бұрын

monkey cheeseburger pie Venice hoodie beach ice cream chair hickory spider lambo Michael Knight kool aid swing set river cat ungowa click boom pop truck guitar. That is what is in my brain. 😵‍💫🥴t

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 4 ай бұрын

@@Aubatronwe see this in adhd and working memory deficits too. both groups compensate with genuine higher levels of creativity

@mikeyKnows_ Жыл бұрын

I used to have A.D.D and performed very bad in school my whole life, i could not concentrate and would get worn out by a lot of work that required mental processing. When I was early 30s I was in a motorcycle accident, I used marijuana to cope with the pain, well I started noting that I could focus for much longer and I could work for 12, 14, 16 hours of straight Excel, multi tasking and strenuous pressure. I ended up going to college and became a teacher.

@Ant_Dawgg 2 жыл бұрын

One day we will figure out how to accurately execute these things in our brains and fully unlock them

@HDJess 11 ай бұрын

6:41 the puzzle is intentionally made to be unsolvable with trickery (imprecise rules). So, the possibility of drawing outside the box isn't presented, as the background is too small and you wouldn't consider it to be allowed to draw outside, as you'd reach the borders. I even found multiple solutions to the puzzle when drawing outside the area.

@Yasuk3 Жыл бұрын

My mom works with adults with developmental disabilities (autism, down syndrome, etc.) and the prevalence of savants is astounding. When you lose one gift you really do fain another tenfold

@LeGiTGaMiNgSAMIUR Жыл бұрын

indeed

@sudokuacrobatics 11 ай бұрын

How come?

@Yasuk3 11 ай бұрын

@@sudokuacrobatics I mean I guess it’s your brain compensating for what you lost. Kind of how when someone loses one sense your others become heightened

@sudokuacrobatics 11 ай бұрын

@@Yasuk3 that isn't true

@Yasuk3 11 ай бұрын

@@sudokuacrobatics what isn’t?

@phyxd2670 9 ай бұрын

Had a friend that received surgery for a tumor on the back of his brain. He lost some body stability functions but gained a photographic memory. Simple quick glance at any page of text and he could recite it all back

@shngsam8777 Жыл бұрын

the other side of brain compensate and form new connections, reminds me of the case of a girl have surgery to remove half of her damaged brain because a disease but after recovery she live a completely normal life and even graduated university apparently the other half of the brain compensate the missing part

@willmerguzmanrodriguez6635 Жыл бұрын

Ayo!, saw the same video

@fanta4743 2 жыл бұрын

This video is very well made... I could definitely see this channel blowing up. Good Luck Man!

@Hensch Жыл бұрын

Did anyone else manage to connect the 9 dots with 4 lines? I also figured out that it's possible to connect all 9 dots with just 3 straight lines (since I wasn't sure wether the lines are allowed to cross, so i came up with 2 solutions). I don't have savant syndrome but diagnosed ADHD and probably undiagnosed Aspbergers

@mayaliya200 Жыл бұрын

Mike Tyson made quite few men to be savants.

@OLDCHEMIST1 Жыл бұрын

Paradoxical that brain damage can lead to excellence in certain fields! I remember reading about an average man who had an accident involving a blow to his head who afterwards became mathematically gifted.

@Ozzianman 11 ай бұрын

More terrifyingly. There have been cases of brain cancer that turned people into pedophiles. The case I am thinking about, he had near uncontrollable urges that vanished with the removal of the brain cancer, but came back as the cancer recurred.

@MyCorrectOpinion Ай бұрын

It's called Jason Padgett

@OLDCHEMIST1 Ай бұрын

@@MyCorrectOpinion Thanks!

@kevinm.1565 Жыл бұрын

You make some really good intuitive conclusions/hypotheses on the videos I’ve seen so far! Great stuff!

@benji-menji Жыл бұрын

I think Savant only really happens if you connect the dots in the right way. There is no guarantee that bloking or changing neural paths will make you smarter but it will likely change you regardless. I think we can learn a lot on how to make our neural paths more efficient through these changes. I'm on the spectrum and I ended up being good at the unimportant things.

@pedrov.8087 11 ай бұрын

Like rythm games?

@benji-menji 11 ай бұрын

@@pedrov.8087 Good answer, but I will never put in enough time to be considered ok where there are people who can play "through the fire and the flames" on 2x speed.

@mitaskeledzija6269 11 ай бұрын

How does anything make sense what u said..

@benji-menji 11 ай бұрын

@@mitaskeledzija6269 I misspelled blocking, I don't think making sense of my ramblings is worth everyone's time.

@mitaskeledzija6269 11 ай бұрын

@@benji-menji hmm.. ok ig

@DailyBookInsights Жыл бұрын

Why did the baseball player become a genius after getting hit in the head? Because it knocked some sense into him!

@nexus4dev Жыл бұрын

As a Teen who actually has savant syndrome, when I was 9 I was interested in physics and how things work, my native language is NOT English but somehow I never learnt English in the first place I still don't know what happened to me at the age of 9, I was interested music and art, now I'm 15 and I already know calculus 3, Idk how it's happened to me, I hope you'll read it, Thx!

@Breaking-benjamin-demons 10 ай бұрын

Try to make alien technology

@tommyfartly4798 Жыл бұрын

It took me a while to harness what had happened and turned it into an ability instead of a disability, 8 years ago I was blindsided in my right temple with a hammer fist. Nerve damage to my nose upper lip right Temple, sigmatic fracture with a broken eye socket hairline fracture to my jaw and six broken teeth on one side. My right eyeball was popping out of its socket and they monitored me for almost 12 hours. I'm literally way more articulate and analytical than I was before along with mushrooms has helped reconnect my synapses and strengthen those connections in my brain. I learn about neurology biology and physics for fun and half the time don't remember it just so I have to watch it again, I forget or remember at will now, nobody I know does that or cares. I remember things like a computer sometimes besides numbers cuz I hate numbers; give me enough time to study one subject and I'll tell you everything about it to a T. The only thing I hate is how angry I get now because of it. These things happen and it is a miracle.

@chicken29843 11 ай бұрын

This is just a bunch of rationalist nonsense. Not to mention the complete unreliability of self-report and self-evaluation when it comes to psychology. Like humans are literally biologically incapable of self-evaluation accurately

@Alexzan220 11 ай бұрын

Bro you trollin

@dissobeyon9855 11 ай бұрын

Bro contracted ADHD or something

@aljon5947 11 ай бұрын

I think bro got hit too hard💀

@legendavid11111 11 ай бұрын

@@aljon5947😂😂😂😂

@EdeYOlorDSZs 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are absolutely amazing man!

@mdiasz3478 2 жыл бұрын

When a baseball hits a hard surface, the baseball bends and “goes along” due to the elasticity properties of it, same would work with certain sneakers ( the bending property), a man was assaulted outside of a bar and he got kicked in the head and acquired Savants, I wonder if this “elastic” impact that goes along with the “original” trauma is the one responsible for the damage and “repair order” of the neurons allowing them to cause savants instead of just amnesia, I know it’s a long shot but iam pretty sure everyone who has read about acquired savant would think about.

@Amy_the_Lizard Жыл бұрын

Would just like to point out that most brain damage doesn't result in amnesia. The effects can vary wildly depending on the region damaged, and amnesia only occurs if memory regions like the hippocampus are damaged. If you don't get damage there, it's not going to cause amnesia whether you get savant syndrome or not...

@luvsilly60 Жыл бұрын

When I first started reading your post. I was skeptical. I think your theory is as good as all the ones I have heard.

@tiagofilipe2481 11 ай бұрын

Maybe an huge rubber dildo do the trick

@robinfa1477 2 жыл бұрын

If both an autistic and neurotypical person hit their head in the same place, I wonder if the autistic person is more likely to develop savant syndrome or not. I also wonder how this works for other neurodivergences.

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

I had heard it's possible for a TBI to cause autism, sounds like what may be going on here

@robinfa1477 Жыл бұрын

@@recoveringsoul755 I don't think it causes autism, just similar symptoms in some cases (which wouldn't even necessarily be savant syndrome). I'm just wondering how this works if the person hitting their head is autistic to begin with.

@BlackEagle352 Жыл бұрын

The condition to replicate the baseball incident would be complex. Like the area, pressure, impact length, condition on the brain etc

@sparrow_solas Жыл бұрын

Lets test it

@mikehawk2257 Жыл бұрын

@@sparrow_solas ill volenteer

@jaybingham3711 Жыл бұрын

I can remember an episode of distinct, powerful awareness of self-awareness as a toddler. Possibly even pre toddler. I was crawling on the living room or dining room floor and happened upon a tasty looking electrical cord (I believe it was to a lamp). Adults were just around corner in kitchen. And then I hit pay dirt. And that shock ignited my inner self. Lots of inner dialog, super heightened awareness, with powerful sensibilities of me being an agent (a self) in a cause and effect world. And being in awe of the mental change…totally aware that the shock decidedly established a distinct before and after. I would later in childhood experience two more such jumps. Didn’t result in any savantism. But maybe it shocked me out of a path that had me slated to be a complete stone cold idiot. Or yes…funny guy…shocked me up to that level. 🤫

@fizipcfx 11 ай бұрын

bro got updated

@ayanbhattacharjee1076 11 ай бұрын

software update

@jpr4747 11 ай бұрын

It's interesting. As I was a little baby, my mother let me fell down from her arms to the steps, that hurt my head and I had to stay for that traumatism at the hospital for several weeks.i remember very some events of m'y early yeaes, as I was less than three and even less than 2,5 ( my sister was born.when I was 2,5). At the babies garden, I remember how I solved remote a kind of puzzle and was shocked.another baby failed, while another succède but manipulating it. At 3, I was able to name every car model. Then I décidéd once to remember everything in my life but realieed I had to spend my recalling a pyramidal amount of facts and telling myself it in sentences. Then I learned to read by myself begore school. But I hated school. I was fond of numbers and after a yeae suddenly brilliant in solfege. However, I could not be at all considered a genius. In logics, I beated everyone, but not in maths : I was only able to succeed in "my""things, I needed to understand by myself and not to listen everybodu else. At the end, I studied maths, but my approach kept différent than the one of other students. The lecture seemed easy to me, but I was not really good at the exams. I always wondered if that early traumatism has playef a role in my special intelligence...

@squirrelyshirley7629 10 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great origin story for a super hero 😂

@CyberNoah 10 ай бұрын

Can relate man, I have memories from like when I was a toddler as well around the ages of 2-3, I remember going on a vacation to Florida in like 2006-2007, It was around the fourth of july, and I remember vividly sitting at the beach looking at fireworks in the sky & seeing my dad fish and caught some huge red fish, then going to the grocery store couple days after & at the time this was out called "fruit loops cereal straws" i was obbessed with eating them when I was on that vacation, I was around 2-3 mind you & I just looked up recently to see if they brought them back & they did, and I was so happy, I also have another memory of running around in my diaper at like age 2 going up & down stairs.

@gunnargrass691 Жыл бұрын

A kid down the street from me with autism was a math whiz. Something like 6 years younger than me and like 1 year behind me in math. And it’s not like I was bad at math, I was taking math 2 years ahead and this kid was basically right behind me and acing it!

@abstract5249 10 ай бұрын

He's probably ahead of you now.

@ssiddarth 2 жыл бұрын

Video on either of these topics please: Will neural implants/BCIs replace smartphones & smartglasses in the future? Or Will rejuvenation therapies & gene editing be able to successfully cure aging?

@jamesmooney8933 Жыл бұрын

As a boy, I had a very difficult time in Grade School. I flunked 5th grade twice. As I look back, I think I had something called absentseizures. (I learned about absentseizures on KZfaq. ) I would be sitting in class and everything would get blurry for a few minutes, and then I would snap out of it. I flunked 5th grade twice, as a matter of fact I did very poorly in the other 4 grades. One day, I landed on my head. I was walking home from a Boy Scout Meeting with my Boy Scout Patrol. We were walking down a hill. It was dirk. One of my friends yelled "TIRES". I remember dodging one tire, then I ran to get off the street. The lat thing I remember is sticking my left foot into a tire speeding down the hill. (I flew up into the air and landed on my head, although I don't remember that) The next thing I know, I was laying on these people's couch with an ice pack on my head. My mother was there, and she drove me home. I went to bed, woke up and went to school. In those day, you didn't go to the emergency room, unless you need stitches or had a bone broken. After that the absentseizures weren't as bad. My wife notices my mind drifting off, and she jokes me about. After the hit on the head, I became a solid C student, graduated from high school (never flanking a class) and graduated from College. The absentseizures have never been as bad as grade school. Althoug when I concentrate on a problem, I will go into a trance like state. I work as an Electrician. I sometimes work up on a 40 ft. ladder. I will go into a deep concentrated state, that I start to enjoy it. Note: when I landed on my head. I hit the right side of my head above my ear, but below the top of my head.

@ishawrizz 10 ай бұрын

Now that I've read your story I think I've absent seizures too, i never knew it's abnormal for people to have these

@jamesmooney8933 10 ай бұрын

@@ishawrizz I found out the same way, sort of. It hurt me in grade school, but school was boring. I don't consider it a handicap now, because I can go into intense concentration.

@ishawrizz 10 ай бұрын

@@jamesmooney8933 bad part is that sometimes I'm even riding my bike and cycling unconsciously and then suddenly I snap out of it, but it's always on my daily route so it's like a reflex of mine to dodge anything that comes in my way.

@jamesmooney8933 10 ай бұрын

@@ishawrizz I was a truck driver. Sometimes after a long run, I wonder how I got to where I was. I was in the right place, but couldn't recall about 10 miles back. Did I stop at all the red lights? I was on automatic pilot

@Mohammad_Ali__ Жыл бұрын

Not every illness is seen as a curse. Some illnesses such the one that’s being discussed in this video actually could be a blessing. Sure living could be different before getting an illness, but almost every person has a unique experience with living and coping with an illness or disability/disabilities.

@solventabusekills159 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t force fate to become a savant that risk is just stupid and will be punished by karma. I am happy being in awe of these brainiac super brains and happy to find ultimate prolific ness in a large variety of sports and knowledge. These people are an inspiration and I find it awesome that they are incredibly exceptional.

@Kurongy Жыл бұрын

@Moonlight Gamers You don't know that. And if he wants to beliefs in karma, let him. Mind your own business

@seekerlemm875 Жыл бұрын

The awful grammar I'm seeing right now hurts my eyes.

@Kurongy Жыл бұрын

@@seekerlemm875 Are you talking about me? 🧐

@jesuslikedpie Жыл бұрын

I swear to god, if I ever receive a head injury and wake up knowing dates on a calendar I am going to be so pissed. At least let me wake up knowing how much of a tip I have to leave.

@wingerplayz5035 5 ай бұрын

@Madchinaa no he wasn't

@anthonymelohorstmann1238 Жыл бұрын

Well, it also comes with downsides, there was a man who was capable of drawing entire cities from memory, but he couldnt tie his shoelaces and couldnt wear suits with buttons

@hgilbert Жыл бұрын

Do you mean Stephen Wiltshire? But this one I believe can tie his own shoelaces and often wears suits with buttons.

@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Жыл бұрын

They’re called idiot savants

@Vik1919 Жыл бұрын

@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Still smarter than others in certain things but of course you feel the need to insult people with syndromes in order to make yourself feel better. What a thing to be proud of.

@ominouspotato5208 11 ай бұрын

@@Vik1919 I'm not sure that was necessarily supposed to be an insult, that's the original name of it, and it was later changed because the connotation of the word "idiot" had changed

@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 5 ай бұрын

@@Vik1919That was the actual term for it at one point

@newsuperalbin3970 11 ай бұрын

Something I think that needs to be made clear is that savant syndrome does NOT make you smarter. U just earn a new ability, but it can also very likely come with side affects such as having hard time socialising and multiple physical disabilities. A guy in Got Talent read a whole book in a few minutes on stage, reading two pages at the same time and then he told the entire book word by word. It’s cool and all but he also couldn’t walk and he felt very lonely due to his lack of socialising skills. So in conclusion, having savant syndrome is actually not just cool. It can be very bad too.

@jixpuzzle 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a double edged sword.

@danieljoseph6404 10 ай бұрын

I'd rather be a savant and non social than being both dumb and non social.

@newsuperalbin3970 10 ай бұрын

Except if ur a savant u might not be able to walk, or control your body well

@aliceinwonderland887 9 ай бұрын

Take any matter, smash it and get new physical connections. If people were able to unfold the brain we would have a very large flat piece of grey matter with lots of surface area. Our brains function by connecting neurons. The more surface area the more connections. The more connections the smarter we are. These particular people in this story were very fortunate that new connections were made. We more often die from these types of blows.

@Answeriz42 Жыл бұрын

I’m no savant but when I was 9 years old in fourth grade gym class I accidentally ran into the corner of the gym wall full speed smashing my head pretty bad and leaving me very concussed. Before that I was a terrible student, super hyperactive, not caring about school or sports or anything apart from videogames and regular kid stuff. A few months after that knock on the head in the summer before grade 5 something inside of me changed, like I suddenly felt motivated to change myself, get good grades, become faster/stronger/more athletic, smarter, basically improve every aspect of myself and become confident in my abilities. I used to be the slowest kid in my grade and made it my goal to succeed in the yearly track and field meet the next year, and would practice sprinting up and down my backyard and being more involved with sports during the school year.I was a C student before and I quickly applied myself and wouldn’t settle for anything less than an A. I changed what I wore and cut my hair differently. I noticed I just could understand things and my teachers+peers considered me a gifted student, whereas the year before I was a completely unathletic idiot. I have no clue if my new outlook in life was due to the head trauma or just being fed up with who I was at the time, but my personality changed so profoundly it’s crazy not to think it had something to do with it.

@wescald Жыл бұрын

Good story, about to run into the wall full speed, I’ll keep you updated

@Snorlax108 Жыл бұрын

I hit something too, when I was young. and it changed every aspect of my life it was puberty

@caralho5237 Жыл бұрын

Maybe the stronger the head trauma the bigger the benefit Brb im gonna grab a hammer

@wescald Жыл бұрын

Update: gahhavebfhchsmwbrjfjsnwn🤤

@fitmotheyap 11 ай бұрын

Found a plane to jump off of with my head down, I'll keep you updated

@AllForTheGame 2 жыл бұрын

yes, i fell backwards and hit my head on concrete when i was a kit. after that accident i became introverted where before i was extroverted. I noticed that i started to filter my thoughts before i said them aloud. even people around me noticed it that i wasnt talking much like i use to. Today, im known by some for my work that involves art, creativity and engineering.

@shibuki_anime Жыл бұрын

Same with me, i also hit my head while jumping, only to hit my head on ceiling and fall down. After then i became introverted lacked all the social skills, no physically talents on sports. But now, i am good at nothing🙂

@recoveringsoul755 Жыл бұрын

I had a concussion as a toddler. Not sure what I was like before then, or after really. At 14 I had a seizure and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Now almost 50 years later I am realizing I am probably autistic.

@MyLegsAreKindaLong Жыл бұрын

Just sound like normal side effects of getting older

@jesuslikedpie Жыл бұрын

@@shibuki_anime I also hit my head and don't brain good.

@bruhed3059 Жыл бұрын

@@MyLegsAreKindaLong exactly

@marymorland7722 Жыл бұрын

You’re really good at explaining this subject in a entertaining manner. Thank you for your work.

@chrismellon127 11 ай бұрын

I have had TMS sessions twice. It is a game changer!!

@ImCerealSuperDuperCereal Жыл бұрын

I'm autistic and I have a supernatural ability to build and put things together, I also have the abnormal ability to create and visualize things (drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, etc). Right now the biggest interference with creating is money. I want to do woodworking, because it's a extremely creative feild, but I have a hard time with school. I think I'm just going to find a job as a helper and work my way up to being an apprentice. Idk I'll figure it out.

@Crestalus 11 ай бұрын

I could still vividly remember that fateful day when my brother-in-law hit me in the head with a bat so hard it knocked me out for 5 hours. Afterwards, when I woke up, I felt my head was foggy and fuzzy. This was probably the result of sleeping for so long in the middle of the day, or so I thought. Although my brain was foggy, all my other senses were heightened. I felt like I could perceive everything at once. In a way, it felt counter-intuitive, I was experiencing everything but at the same time my brain was still blank. It was almost like my brain capacity had increased so much that such trivialities couldn’t hold it back anymore. I could do maths in seconds now. I could see scenarios playing out in my head before they happen. It was a life-changing moment.

@Crestalus 11 ай бұрын

Yeah no I made this whole thing up 💀💀

@MeisjeLief88 11 ай бұрын

@@CrestalusI’m crying bro 😭😭😂😂

@MyCorrectOpinion Ай бұрын

@@Crestalus based.

@gagelochard3731 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if there is some way we could figure out how to induce savant syndrome effectively.

@User-jr7vf 11 ай бұрын

there is going to be a way in the future---a safe, medical procedure that induces it.

@MyCorrectOpinion Ай бұрын

"Here we demonstrate that after ~5 minutes of visual deprivation, sounds can evoke synesthesia-like percepts (vivid colors and Klüver form-constants) in ~50% of non-synesthetes." "Participants (N = 103) were exposed to mathematical problems without knowing that a hidden rule allowed solving them almost instantly. We found that spending at least 15 s in N1 during a resting period tripled the chance to discover the hidden rule (83% versus 30% when participants remained awake), and this effect vanished if subjects reached deeper sleep." "LSD produces synesthesia by selectively activating serotonin 5-HT2A receptors." My hypothesis is that the left ATL inhibits synesthesia also, as cathodal stimulation left ATL, while it has benefits, has been shown to eliminate cross-category advantage in the color-word stroop test, possibly suggesting that the left ATL separated the text and color information as distinct information, in order to perform the stroop test better. This is further proven by cathodal stimulation of the left ATL inducing savantism, which is often the result of integration of sensory information and lack of distinction between different sensory stimuli. I'm not a neuroscientist, so I could just be completely wrong... Anyways, you should learn about V. S. Ramachandran who know a lot about these kind of subjects. I wish I could meet him.

@medogerty6013 11 ай бұрын

You can use 3 straight lines to connect the dots. You can make an N shape but slightly angle the lines so that they touch each dot, but not necessarily go through the middle of them.

@roastyou666 Жыл бұрын

I have the reverse-savant syndrome😒

@onlyscams Жыл бұрын

This is literally a real life superhero origin story

@oreo01129 10 ай бұрын

To amarug, many things about what you said happened to me, also in my school a few weeks ago I finished the I-Ready math diagnostic and got pretty much the highest score in my grade which is 4th grade, I was the 1st person to get a score higher than my grade in 4th grade (it happened in 3rd too) and I later found out that I was the first to do it in 20+ YEARS

@rileynoonan7532 10 ай бұрын

The solution to the 9 dot problem can be solved easily without going outside the lines unless the original rules state that the line must be with one beginning and one end. Straight line across any side and three perpendicular lines.

@TheSkulleh 11 ай бұрын

I've been knocked out a couple times and I'm pretty sure I just get dumber each time. Plus I get headaches often. Good times.

@muhammadzaakirmungrue3146 Жыл бұрын

When I was 18 my dad tied me up with rope and kicked me in me on the left side of my head and my left ear drum bursted and spewed blood to his amazement. I feel there is no exam I cannot pass unless there are trick question and may God bless my head.

@terminardo Жыл бұрын

amen ill drink to that

@stxcks23 Жыл бұрын

Hoping you heal and get away from toxic people in your life 🙏

@jesscorbin5981 11 ай бұрын

I just saw a video that if you can solve wave particle duality, you become the Einstein of our age

@souleymanediallo6902 11 ай бұрын

Today my birthday I didn’t even expect to watch this video but I enjoy it Thanks For sharing on this video

@maestro3887 2 жыл бұрын

What an underrated channel

@legacysage 2 жыл бұрын

So if you're going to get hit in the head, better to get hit on the left than the right I suppose. All my head injuries as a child were located centrally. Damn.

@ix-Xafra Жыл бұрын

Depending on whose data you read, between 20 & 40% of males with aspergers syndrome also have ambliopia. It's nearly always the left eye that is called lazy. Nothing wrong with the eye but the neural network that operates it.

@co-null5599 Жыл бұрын

Except Aspergers is an outdated term and no longer used in the medical field. It is now high functioning autism

@ix-Xafra Жыл бұрын

@@co-null5599 and high functioning autism is distinctly characterised by childhood verbal development issues that aspergers does not and the proponents of 'outdating' the term fail to make that distinction. 100% of medical and psyche ' professionals' I've consulted are completely unaware of the fact in my original comment - as were you. That's why you tried to nitpic nomenclature to seem superior...

@BusinessWolf1 11 ай бұрын

lol okay so I might have that then, because I do have a lazy left eye and undiagnosed adhd, which I heard is similar to autism/aspergers

@ozzemie 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating. I'm a woman diagnosed with ASD and have a left eye that is lazy 🤔

@christianscott2806 9 ай бұрын

Wow! I mean i have aspergers and have a lazy left when tired, amazing how that works!

@maraalamuddin2219 8 ай бұрын

Good content 💟🌹 Keep up the worl , you'll get there . I am a new subscriber from Oman .

@mrr5835 Жыл бұрын

Interesting video!

@hiiamelecktro4985 2 жыл бұрын

I can see this channel blowing up

@burrdid Жыл бұрын

if i could control time and I was immortal I could just keep hitting spots on my brain until I find the correct spot

@HuracanSeneca 10 ай бұрын

The only time I felt something similar to this, where i had this burning desire to learn new things and try creative stuff was when I was on heavy medication because of my autoimmune flare-up. Once I started getting back to “normal” health, laziness and fatigue came back. Ofc I’d much rather be healthy than smart but ill. But it was really interesting like I was a totally different person.

@anthonyt219 9 ай бұрын

Same. Once I got on meds. My drive to create pretty much calmed down. I can't think up new ideas anymore.

@bobbihancock5012 10 ай бұрын

After realizing how simple the dot problem was: I wonder if it’s just because we are conditioned to think a certain way, and when the “wiring in the brain “ gets changed to make the creative side compensate for the logical side of the brain, it allows a person to “think outside the box”…..literally

@Sciencerely 2 жыл бұрын

I'll be back in a minute I'll just tape a magnet to my head first 🧲

@jordanscott6204 Жыл бұрын

So this must be what Patrick had in the episode called Patrick Smartpants where he became super smart by hitting his head down a cliff

@L3uX Жыл бұрын

If the idea is straight lines, you could do this in 3 moves, just a straight but angled line that goes through all 3 rows, 1 line at a time. Doesn't have to go outside the shaded box.

@ooze9808 Жыл бұрын

i might need this injury before finals next week

@redherringoffshoot2341 Жыл бұрын

the "hyperactive behavior" part is ADHD, smth that unfortunately tends to get confused w/ being on the Austim Spectrum cause, although that's not to say that you can't have ADHD as an accompanying disorder

@iloveappleslalala 11 ай бұрын

when you have autism you are often very hyperactive and it's not always adhd. for example talking to autistic children they would often avoid eye contact at all costs and run around while fiddling with stuff and you'd have to often often tell them to try and focus. that's my experience helping out

@FlockofAngels Жыл бұрын

I smashed my head quite badly on a marble top table when I was about 5 years old, I work in the fields of science, art and music but I am not certain this is a result of that accident but it is a possibility my skills were intensified due to the injury.

@iloveappleslalala 11 ай бұрын

or you culda been a genius but it limited you lol

@FlockofAngels 11 ай бұрын

@@iloveappleslalala I don't feel limited. 😊

@haloexmachina8100 11 ай бұрын

Baseball: I'm about to start this man's whole career.

@thesilversurfer7136 11 ай бұрын

This is amazing. Wished it happened to me in school.

@lilbullet158 Жыл бұрын

I had a brain haemorrhage many years ago and underwent almost 8 hours brain surgery, was paralysed, hemiplegic for around two years. I'm not saying I have savant syndrome but (on the good side), I certainly seem to have an ability that I guess is a bit unusual. Sometimes Memories (old and new), play in my head like video recordings. If I have a conversation with a friend or friends, Weeks later I will remember the conversation... that's normal I guess but where it becomes Unusual is I will remember 'What was said', 'Who said what', 'Where we were', Where we were standing', even what clothes we were All waring when we had the conversation... There is a Lot more to it than that but I'm pretty sure that's Not 'Normal', so to speak. But on the Bad side of things I still have a host of problems.

@exostatics 11 ай бұрын

that's cool man! glad you're feeling better

@User-jr7vf 11 ай бұрын

Sorry to say, but I also have this type of memory and I have never suffered anything to my head.

@lilbullet158 11 ай бұрын

@@User-jr7vf Don't be 'Sorry to say it', we all think in different ways. Besides, I'm sure your fine. For me personally, however, that 'video tape' type memory is the least of my problems, I have others that can be very confusing and distressing and some others which, sadly, are very serious.

@justaguyfromreddit 11 ай бұрын

Isn't this normal? I've always lived like this

@pdjtw 10 ай бұрын

that's called hyperthymesia~ There is a china guy called 水哥 (王昱珩) who has that too from birth. To this day he remembers the exact seating positions of every kid on the first day of his toddler class at 3 years old. He has more abilities than just this memory thing, he has super micro observational ability where he can difference water out of 500 cups super fast

@brunafilipa8929 2 жыл бұрын

Which center of investigation was the responsible of the study in the last segment of the video?

@Sciencerely 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! I used the following studies for the last segment: "Brain stimulation enables the solution of an inherently difficult problem" "The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition. A synopsis: past, present, future" "Savant-like Numerosity Skills Revealed in Normal People by Magnetic Pulses" The first and the third study were both approved by the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committe (the second is a general review of Savant syndrome). Hope that answers your question!

@brunafilipa8929 2 жыл бұрын

@@Sciencerely thank you so much! It’s for an high school worksheet :)

@vichofernandez1453 11 ай бұрын

I took a PET scan and my left side of the brain specifically temporal frontal cortex had very little activation. Im pretty smart snd academicamly succesful so i wasnt expecting such an unlit brain.

@levshifrin2216 7 ай бұрын

As someone who struggles with multiple mental illnesses/disorders including ASD, and whose parents claim that, when I was very young, my mom accidentally hit my head slightly against the rear view mirror in the car (even though that probably doesn't have anything to do with it, but still), and who has been told (and partially agrees) that he has a big musical talent/gift, AND plays piano by ear, AND has perfect pitch...! (a.k.a., literally all of what he stated in the video), I can't help but wonder if I might have Savant Syndrome? But enough about me. Thank you for making this video. It was a very cool video and brought a lot of awareness to people like me who have never even heard of this before!

@prschuster Жыл бұрын

In other words, we must lose a function or ability, to gain a new one.

@samirdoncic6395 Жыл бұрын

About the guy who can calculate dates in a year, actually anyone can do that with practice, there is a formula for that, with little practice u could become genius as well 😅

@jixpuzzle 11 ай бұрын

Yeah 👍

@onaleronakgatlane4871 4 күн бұрын

That's probably the reason why we become so creative when we are drunk 😂😂😂

@BaryernMunich 11 ай бұрын

This man is telling to risk my life to play cricket. I got hit in the head and I was bleeding out and I only changed my personality, now I am from the one that is always frustrated to the most chilled person

@andreimations 2 жыл бұрын

Does it work if i jump of the 2nd floor of a building This could change my way of studying

@RayMak Жыл бұрын

With great powers comes great issues too

@PraveenSriram Жыл бұрын

Well stated

@PraveenSriram Жыл бұрын

And very great responsibility

@himanshu3103 Жыл бұрын

Yo u alive??

@Hollowdude15 11 ай бұрын

I guess the injury he had was a good thing and great video man :]

@keezjordan1619 7 ай бұрын

I have had so many head injurys. But my gift is different .

@sachiel197 2 жыл бұрын

great video not sure if it counts as savant syndrome, since that could just be related to autism in general but I always had a talent for anything related to math and logic Nebenbei, wie gehts denn so?

@maestro3887 2 жыл бұрын

hey, ich glaube das hängt nur mit Autismus zusammen, denn ich bin auch gut in Mathe und ich bin sehr gut in Biologie und vor allem Chemie. Ich denke das hängt damit zusammen, dass Autisten (oder Menschen mit Autismus) ein gutes Logikverständnis haben und mit Fakten besser umgehen können als mit Dingen bei denen man verschiedene Sachen interpretieren kann. LG

@sachiel197 2 жыл бұрын

@@maestro3887 Ja das hab ich mir eigentlich schon gedacht Hab auserdem vergessen Biologie und Chemie zu erwähnen (obwohl ich meine Ausbildung darin hab)

@ShadeCaBr Жыл бұрын

nothing to do with savant syndrome, you just have a natural aptitude to learn math and logic, same as everyone who are prone to learn easier in other areas as well. savant syndrome is much more accentuated in regard that they specialize in a area of being almost a genius.

@alicesacco9329 Жыл бұрын

Being gifted and being savant are quite different. A savant doesn't even need to try. A gifted person only start better than the others in his skills and will improve faster than the others. You sound more like a gifted person than a savant.

@kongstrong1938 Жыл бұрын

Remembrance is good, but what you can do with knowledge is excellent 👌

@sachinsingh4264 10 ай бұрын

No wonder my dad used to hit me in the back of my head everytime I did something wrong. It's like a second hand machine being slapped when it stops working😂😂

@logankeeton3564 10 ай бұрын

So humanity just needs to figure out how to produce new brain connections

@quaxky326 Жыл бұрын

I was in a similar situation as this guy, I was once injured after being caught in a stampede. After getting discharged from the hospital I was able to understand everything better! And then I woke up.

@DeconvertedMan 2 жыл бұрын

my head has been hit a few times and I have no special powers but also it did not efffffffffffect me.

@outside_theebox 7 ай бұрын

I can remember car plate numbers that I saw in 2005 up to date so easily... Back in primary school my mates used to be astonished how easy I would do that.

@juliosebastian9585 3 ай бұрын

It seems incredible to me how the brain can adapt to certain conditions and how after an accident it could awaken a certain type of genius, without a doubt there is a lot that we still don't know about the brain.

@gugu532 Жыл бұрын

Such people are really lucky, i mean they would become such great doctors with so much ease.

@Techno-Universal 11 ай бұрын

Savant syndrome could seemingly also be a symptom/trait in people on the autism spectrum are born with however not everyone on the spectrum will have this trait due to how each individual on the spectrum has their own unique set of traits! :)

@newp0rt 9 ай бұрын

wow!! great insight!! maybe you have savant syndrome because of how intelligent you are!! jesus christ, mfs just be stating the obvious lmao. people are different? wow! who knew!

@saturationstation1446 Жыл бұрын

i had some kind of traumatic head injury when i was a baby/toddler which i still carry a scar for

@makispapa5867 8 ай бұрын

So theoritically if someone could force specific nerve connections, they could artificially make a genious. I know it sounds more simple than it actually is, but forcing the human body through a chemical reaction is not unknown to science. I believe we're gonna see wonders in the future, if they're not among us already...

@_sonicfive Жыл бұрын

No matter how much head slaps I got as a kid I am not close to being a genius.

@_mypenisinyourmouth1745 Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@apophenic_ Жыл бұрын

I busted the back of my head from falling while in elementary school. Knocked me out for 10 or so seconds while my teacher and other students watched me. Apparently I was convulsing as well. When I woke up, it started what I can only describe as my stream of consciousness, or that self aware part that continues through time. Kickstarted might be a better term... I'm sure I'd have it regardless. But the growth that same year in becoming self aware was staggering. From that point on I never felt on the same wavelength as my peers. Felt like I wasn't a kid anymore in a strange way I cannot explain. Maybe unrelated. But one of the deep truths I know but can't ever prove.

@wowk7140 11 ай бұрын

When I was 10 I wrote my first book in my language (not English) and although I didn't hit my head anywhere I hit a new level of consciousness too. I have such a great understanding that ONLY those classified as brilliant among adults were able to understand me. For the regular adults, most of what I say go over their heads and I have to repeat myself. Although not a genius, I'm autistic and female. Double strength. Wali LLAHi l hamd.

@Justpassingby204 10 ай бұрын

@@wowk7140yeah, 5th grade was the same age I learned a lot of awareness. Maybe 10 is a special age of brain development

@An-if2vs Жыл бұрын

maybe this why i hit my head so hard to the ground out of frustration and litterly after seconds the greatest idea came to my mind to help me

@PrestonFitzgerald-nh8zw 10 ай бұрын

My brother has high functioning autism and the first year when he joined robotics, he did all of the programming on the robot and made it to worlds. He is very smart and I am insanely proud of him. He plans to go to worlds 4 years

@watchman835 Жыл бұрын

Immediately after see the heading, I hit my head with a hammer, nothing is happening yet, I am eager to see what will happen ahead. 😊

@Vik1919 Жыл бұрын

Are you still alive?

@ryanlewis8465 10 ай бұрын

This has happened to me as well. In 2017 I had a grand mal seizure while standing up and landed on the back of my head spliting the back of my head open. Weeks later after recovering I started noticing how fast I could process information and how calculate things. It goes much deeper than that but yes, this is a real thing.

@gokulvarma627 7 ай бұрын

Finally a good competitor for Magnus

@dfsdfsgsfhgdgjfgh797 8 ай бұрын

thanks im gonna try this

@attackhelicopter3986 2 жыл бұрын

Me bouta get my nearest bat

@Ashallmusica Жыл бұрын

When I was in 5 grade, My Hindi Teacher beat me like hell in front of whole class (because of some misconception between me and the other student) she hit me with everything she could find, even i got Bruises all over my body. And guess what - After that i TOPPED in HINDI 😂, i was so scared that i lost in the subject and topped the whole class even surpassed the Class Topper 🤣

@kikc Жыл бұрын

What the fuck

@nathente5826 Жыл бұрын

Holy shit she traumatized you lol

@Ashallmusica Жыл бұрын

@@nathente5826 yeah, that's why i still remember the incident......

@stxcks23 Жыл бұрын

Damn y’all foreigners got it rough I’m lucky I didn’t have to go through what you did. Hope you heal from those traumatic experience’s 🙏