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Originally posted by Beat Blog I like this one: "Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The term usually refers to a condition following acute brain damage, but recent evidence suggests that a congenital form of the disorder may exist. The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus.[1]" There was another rare one, not so much a syndrome as a pure freak, about a woman with a PERFECT memory. Every day since she was about five years old, she can remember in perfect clarity. If you asked her what she ate for breakfast on the 10th March 1982, she can tell you. The woman told doctors that her life was hell, because it was like having a movie playing in head all day, with no way to escape/forget. This, synaesthesia and certain forms of autism amaze me as to what the human body is capable of. Imagine if in 500 years, reciting pi to 5000 decimal places was the norm for ten-year old kids, like timetables are today, and anyone who couldn't was considered dumb.

In 500 years, our brains will bionic. Any information we needed to know could simply be downloaded into our brains. We will be able to connect our brains to external computers, and download data, play games, and control things with just simple thought. Anyone without a digital brain will considered a noob.

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Originally posted by Krypton Oh oh, can someone find the disorder in which the person lives only in the present?

Uhhhh... reality?

btw, it's called amnesia.

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Originally posted by Beat Blog There was another rare one, not so much a syndrome as a pure freak, about a woman with a PERFECT memory. Every day since she was about five years old, she can remember in perfect clarity. If you asked her what she ate for breakfast on the 10th March 1982, she can tell you. The woman told doctors that her life was hell, because it was like having a movie playing in head all day, with no way to escape/forget.

Interesting. Eidetic memory is usually found among men. For example:

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Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevskii (1886 - 1958?) (Russian: Соломон Шерешевский, also known simply as 'S' ('Ш'), was a Russian journalist and mnemonist. He became famous after an anecdotic event in which he was told off for not taking any notes while attending a speech in the mid-1920s. To the astonishment of everyone there (and to his own also, due to his belief that everybody had such an ability to recall), he could recall the speech perfectly, word by word. Shereshevskii participated in many behavioral studies, most of them carried by the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria over a thirty year time span. Shereshevskii was asked to memorize complex mathematical formulae, huge matrices and even poems in foreign languages and did so in a matter of minutes. Despite his astounding memory performance, Shereshevskii scored absolutely average in intelligence tests, arguing against a strong link between these two capacities.

I found that last part especially interesting.

And of course there's the real life "Rain Man":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek

I've had a course where a brain surgeon had guest lectures (among others). He presented all these disorders and more too. One of the coolest courses I've had.

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