How Brain Damage Can Make You a Genius
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*Become a genius with this one trick. Doctors hate it.*
And it’s quite riskayyyyy but yolo
Yeah, doctors would really hate people banging their heads on the wall for various reasons.
& I thought that ad was just a scam
lmao
Music Teachers hate this trick
I suffered a traumatic brain injury and woke up knowing exactly the right way to spear a mammoth.
LMAOOO! 🤣🤣
Yo, That was a pretty bad hit.
"Real Science"? "2020"? "CZcams"? "Internet"???
Dude, the Chieftain's been in charge for 17 years. Are you sure you're alright? We got that mammoth good while you were out. Com'on, we're going back to our huts. A festival is on, and the other tribe is bringing a wedding party and some stories.
Up the butt, as 45 degree angle to the spinal alignmet. Only 3.8 seconds after it last farted...
genius! we should open an aquired savant syndrome SCHOOL!!! just gotta crack some skulls for profit.
Assume kidding, but something about past lives coming through really strikes me as a possibility.
*proceeds to smash skull in
I suggest you don't
@@b.salazar6610 I suggest him to do it, at least it will act as an experiment
Even though it's still risky(even if it's an experiment)
@Alteration Corroded i want other skills than artistic... Can i hit my right back side instead of the left side??
*GENIUS UNLOCKED*
Real Science- how brain damage can make you genius...
Real engineering - how to specifically design a machine to damage brain to make you genius 😅😆🙌
I subscribe to this channel after real engineerings shout out. I enjoy with real engineerings videos and thought the content quality of this channel will be more or less the same.
What did we learn from this video:
- there are people who has increased artistic abilities after brain damage.
- certain brain areas are related to certain activities.
- we dont know how the brain damage causes increased artistic abilities.
What is the title of the video:
How brain damage can make you genius
How does title relate to the content:
Click bait to a scientific sounding gibberish.
Please improve the content of the next videos or consider to change your script writer. Dont pollute STEM section on youtube.
so this all just was a segue for a Brilliant sponsorship?!?😂🤣😅
Now thats genius 🙈
Just imagine, Retro-Phrenology might become a thing in the future
A piece of my posterior brainstem/spinal cord/cerebellum tumor is in cold storage. Inject where you want some damage to occur indefinitely. Anyone want a piece of that action?
this video could explain that the energy was redirected to my frontal cortex and why my math and prediction abilities have become "natural".
When science and engineering teamed up
"While it hasn't been proven by science" -Real Science CZcams
Dave OKane this video was about what is not completely understood, but definitely exists. The fact that she says these are not proven by science makes this ok.
If you don’t show what we don’t know we will never move towards understanding it
@@_tsu_ ok I'm gonna slam my head into the wall until I'm a genius
@@first_last- Unfortunately, it will take weeks before it is actually worked
@@first_last- do it, it'll make it easier for us all
@@first_last- natural selection
To an extent it makes sense since if an area of the brain is damaged it might have to use other areas more or re arranging pathways to make calculations easier
Savants have fascinated me for so long!!
Imagine how cool it will be in the future if scientists can unlock the dormant abilities of our mind.
Unfortunately there is a lot of gang that are making this kind of experiments everyday, but i never read on newspaper any good results until now 😔
This kind of experiment is unethical and shouldn't be learned beyond misfortunes and accidents.
@@Cptbaraa gang?
@@Dim.g0v criminals smashing people's skulls
@@ccriztoff consciouss and subconsciouss mind cant be damaged, its not a physical thing.
3:30
All Assassin's Creed fans: WAIT A MINUTE !
omg i thought the same exact thing. :o those ubisoft folks were way ahead of the time
stani iliev i thought I was e only one!!
I love when fiction is written with an inspiration from reality. Although this would only apply for base instincts as I don't see how memories could get sent from your brain to your sex organs. At best you could alter your epigenome through experiences (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579375/ fun paper to check out if you want to go down that rabbit hole) but I don't see how you could alter your genetics to have your current memories due to how memory is a reconstruction that'd only really make sense to the original creator of that memory. In any case this video is more focused on how our genetics cause our brains to wire a certain way and thus contribute to our conscious experience with a shared or universal human experience. In a sense this is sort of true, but there's obviously going to be environmental factors that might make your experience unique to just you even if initially you had similar wiring to everyone else.
@@beskamir5977 Thee Animus wasn't inspired by reality
Altair awaits
Imagine if you could switch the parts of your brain that are most active to make yourself a savant in multiple things upon command
I think neuralink, which is a technology that is implanted in the brain to enhance it, can possibly unlock savant abilities.
shrooms and meditation, research why other cultures have mushrooms in their cultures while the usa fears them
You don't do this?
So basically I'm operating on the assumption of autistic savant
When we are this far the next step of human Evolution begin
U can
Be right back !!
*Jumping Sound*....
**Cracking Sound**
The world... the colours... give me a paint brush.
afterlife
@@binarekoharijanto4586 I am, but now I see numbers as colors !!
@@guilhermeal2170 quick get the painting by numbers book out.
How does jumping make a sound? Tf
I recently bump my head against the cupboard shelf it was so violent I was literally seeing stars, but I still waiting for the savant in me to manifest itself.
you have seen "stars" !
Lol, keep waiting
Hit harder
"You may have a very minor case of serious brain damage. Don't be too alarmed though, but if you do feel alarm, try to hold on to that feeling! That is the proper response to knowing that you've got brain damage."
- Wheatley
I mean that's how Chell managed to solve every problem in Portal 1 and 2
10:04 "To unlock your brain's true potential", I thought she would say something along the lines of "try hitting your brain real hard" instead of a brilliant ad.
Yeah, such a good song. I really feel like a genius when i listen to it
It's not like that
Same
Idk but, it increases my IQ
I laughed
Could they please not play his song for the whole video!? I wanted to hear what author of the video wants to say about it. /s
This happened to one of my mechanical engineering professors. After a bad accident climbing in canyons, and recovery, he suddenly was full of creative pursuits. He taught me to weld, machine, and forge. He spends his free time collecting scrap metal to use for art installations, which he builds compulsively. Texas Country Reporter did a segment on him.
Years later, brain cancer did something similar to me, but, with a lot of not so chill effects, as one can imagine.
Omg are you okay now?
@@Creza44 I’m alive still, so that’s a gift and that’s okay! My demonbabies (what I call my tumors) are re-growing back on my brainstem and spinal cord, but super slowly. I returned to school for a graduate degree & research in engineering, where ironically I’m both the most handicapped and highest performing student/researcher in the department. I teach and lead research projects now on gas turbines(jet engines) - (I’m 31 now. Been fighting the battle for 8 years now)
I honestly need to record and share my story while I’ve got time and relatively* healthy.
@@J_McPhearsom idk what’s up with this page but they deleted my response to you, they’re so weird.
More football players should be geniuses
Actually no, Ted-Ed made a video about that... Watch it. czcams.com/video/xvjK-4NXRsM/video.html
r/whoosh
everyone mike tyson has punched are now geniuses.
They make millions kicking a ball.
Trust me, they are!
@@nogoodgod4915 they make millions entertaining hundreds of millions, not kicking a ball.
I had a brain damage back when i was 5 years old (20) today. but i will say it damages the memory and learning ability. Trust me i am here every day trying to figure out how to complete a simple task, and yet still have difficulties in completions. You can improvise yourself after a brain damage yes, that’s what keeps us alive for the most of us
Consider art. Eat choline-rich foods. Sleep more.
Choline and Omega 3s
I think that when one part of the brain is damaged, the body tries to fix it. When it realises it can't, it increases blood flow in the other areas, making a patient talented for a single/multiple ablity(s).
You can use a hand to replace the needs of a foot, with stability, a consequence is a stronger arm
Sort of like that
Something's gotta compensate!
that's a misconception. while reduced bloodflow can make a brain area decrease its abilities, more bloodflow cannot make a brain area increase its abilities.
but neuroplasticity (meaning other parts of the brain compensating for the lost abilities of the damaged brain area) does happen a lot (although it takes time and training). so you were right of that phenomenom, but were wrong about the explanation.
still it does not make you a savant. when brain damage makes you a savant, it's because some specific areas of your brain are damaged, which would otherwise inhibit some special abilities, because before the damage, not having those special abilities makes you more adapted to daily life and survival
If this was the explanation then it should happen a LOT more. There must be more going on.
Just an anecdote, I suffered a concussion riding my bike as I have recovered I have noticed a pick up in some cognitive abilities that I didn't have before. In particular seeing big picture connections between mathematics and philosophy. I am by no means a sevant, hit it is interesting.
That’s rlly cool!
connections between mathematics and philosophy? what does that even mean? elaborate
7:50
Aliens: are we a joke to you?
Aliens could have archived singularity in AI. Ist called that because it could be so incredibly intelligent that we can't even predict anything past that point.
But nah a neurological system of an Ape is understandably more complex
Smoothest transition to Brillant's sells speech ever made.
I take a little issue with the collective unconcious theory, like much of early psychology it's not been supported by any evidence, the finches are explained much better by the same idea convergent evolution; simple inputs, clever, complex and identical outputs
@@williamfabiano7571 Why is your comment the same as Geoff Brom's: czcams.com/video/clc6VwDepa4/video.html&lc=Ugx1hLXUhgA-CQgBJIN4AaABAg ?
she's really good at weaving these advertisements into videos
I always respected this channel, considering it a good begginer source for things I don't have lot of knowledge about. But giving undue credit to Carl Jung pseudoscientific theories makes me doubt what other things you are letting slip.
It seems to me that this is less a video about what is known in psychology and more video about what is unknown. I will say I'm unhappy with the conclusion of this video that perhaps skills are always present but dormant but I am happy with the tone carried throughout that there is much we don't understand about how skills are developed. All of this being said I've yet to educate myself on Carl's views and frankly all of the sources provided.
It's a video about a mysterious topic and showing the best theories they could find, how does that make them less credible?
This video makes no definitive radical statements. It presents radical ideas but also is quite skeptical about them.
So you don’t like Carl Jung and your emotions are so strong you’re willing to disbelieve anything else on this channel? Plz share why his work is invalid Carl Jung is all throughout the study of psychology and has helped many people.. seems pretty effective. I hope you’re not making assumptions based on emotion and calling it reasoning. Also Psychology is incomplete you shouldn’t be so sure you know everything.
^^^
Is it possible to obtain this power?
Not from a Jedi... unless they stab you in the head with their Lightsaber.
Master Therion youre here too?
_Not from a hammer._
Not from a Yeti
I had a traumatic brain injury or bleed on the brain... When I woke up from the coma I didn't talk I just draw on paper... Now I paint... I started the Quantum SUPERFLAT art movement... Much love ❤️ from BIL Australasian outsider superflat artist...
I very much enjoyed this documentary! I enjoyed as we learn more about our biology the more fascinating and intricate it is and how little we know about it. I cannot wait until the next video!
If that theory is true then imagine how many people have died without "unlocking" their ability, how many geniuses have been lost and how far we as humans could have progressed...its sad to think about.
I take a little issue with the collective unconscious theory, like much of early psychology it's not been supported by any evidence, the finches are explained much better by the same idea as convergent evolution; simple inputs, clever, complex and identical outputs
Carls Jungs theories of the collective unconscious containing hundreds of archetypal symbols that underpins our religions and culture has been scientifically vindicated by the Electric Universe group at Thunderbolts.info They do plasma research and many of the symbols have been duplicated in electric plasma labs. The other place the symbols occur is in ancient rocks and the ancients saw cataclysmic plasma displays in the sky that wiped out most human and animal life. So the ancients were right to record these scary happenings. It never occurred to Carl Jung that the sky in ancient times was vastly different to what we see today. Not his fault. So he was RIGHT after all. And this lovely documentary explains the origins of Jungs symbols that he catalogued visiting isolated cultures all over the world. They were all in the sky in ancient times. Symbols of an Alien Sky Official Movie
czcams.com/video/dlZL0IFscMM/video.html
@@kimbo99 oh hey only saw this now because of the other comment, thanks tho the evidence isn't quite up to scientific rigor it's nice to know folks are still thinking about these old ideas sometimes they can help us find a new spin on the stuff we're working with today
@@geoffbrom7844 My take is modern science is quite wrong to dismiss Carl Jung Because his symbols have been identified in modern plasma labs. That's hard science. The same symbols are found in ancient rock pictures and carvings and most of our religious symbols. They were all seen in ancient skies. Our biggest mistake today is assuming our unchanging skies today have always been that way. In this beaut short video EV Cochrane explains how the Polar configuration (3 planets in a row with glowing electric field between them) , produced massive frightening sky displays that were recorded by astronomers in every culture (objective validation, scientific rigour) and was the origin of much ancient symbolism that we cant let go of, even today
*Ev Cochrane: Polar Configuration - Venus Devastatrix | Thunderbolts*
czcams.com/video/hpJP8z0T7Uw/video.html
I disagree with you BECAUSE U R WRONG
@@kimbo99 what in the fuck is a "modern plasma lab"?
Me: *reads the title
Me: *starts banging my head against the wall
I always respected this channel, considering it a good begginer source for things I don't have lot of knowledge about. But giving undue credit to Carl Jung pseudoscientific theories makes me doubt what other things you are letting slip.
am really enjoying this new channel :) keep it up! great topics with clear explanation.
The real brain damage were the friends we made along the way
As someone that was in two horrible accidents back to back that damaged my brain and took away my ability to go to school and learn how I used to.. this gives me a little glimmer of hope. :)
Probably too late now but some savant abilities can appear years later so maybe not!
*starts repeatedly smashing head against table*
I was bad at sports until the age of 9. Had a concussion on the left side, woke up not knowing anybody. Had problems studying, remembering simple things. A few yrs later I would b good at everything I found an interest in, to a point I was able to master wat ever I focused on & surpassed within months that other ppl struggled to master after yrs of practice. It's something that always baffled me & I always felt it had something to do with that concussion
Basically damage(maybe deficit) to an area of the brain will allow other brain areas to grow beyond normal. In theory, could this help explain why some people with Asperger's or dyslexia have amazing abilities in certain area(s)?
Like Plato says: You are not learning new things, you are just remembering
This is the first time i thought what if i hit something with my head and become a genius
never stop making videos.....you will soon be popular than now...i just got your video in my recommendations!
Great video, very interesting and relatively obscure topic.
omg. This channel provides such mind-blowing information. I can't believe that some musical abilities are hidden in our DNAs... that's so mysterious.
I know the history of my family quite well, and I have heard that all of my mom's relatives were inclined to learning languages. My Gran spoke English, German, and somehow Afrikaans freely, and my aunt's the biggest passion was Spanish. Does this mean that I may have these skills too, hidden somewhere in my brain, sleeping and waiting to be woken?.. woah.
My Traumatic Brain Injury only left me with short term memory loss and reduced the speed with which my memory recall is processed. Which affects my verbal communication. Writing my thoughts down, and reading/editing them many several times, is the best way for me to communicate my actual thoughts. Otherwise it comes out fragmented.
This happened to me after I suffered a stroke, which affected the right, temporal and frontal lobes primarily, but also various parts of the brain that showed hypodensities.
"memories can be stored in your genes."
*Abstergo would like to know your location*
Now can you plss explain Deja vu?
Sometimes while I'm falling asleep and drifting off I can hear music. Whole multi-instrument songs. I've always wanted to control this. Its beautiful to hear, wish I could play it all.
Its an attempt to communicate with you. How do you reply ? Musical communication is often how Gnosis starts.
Go here www.truebluehealer.com/ 20 mins BEGINNERS TOUR All explained.
Expect vivid messaging night dreams within a week
Immediate physical evidence that something has changed
Keywords typed into your mindseye
Vivid messaging day dreams ( you might say visions)
And lots more. All questions answered
same but I hear voices of people instead
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The instant muscle memory and dexterity required to play piano at a high level is what I can’t wrap my head around. Unless he actually had to practice for a little while to get a feel for it, then the savant nature just took over and rapidly increased his progress with the instrument
3:30
All Assassin's Creed fans: WAIT A MINUTE !
@@user-ys9lh8le1b u stealing comments huh? That's low
My guess is they are exaggerating and he sat there for like 30 minutes and could play incredibly instead of instantly being able to play well.
the ad at the end for brilliant struck a cord in me. when I was very young I fell out of a tree and head my head in multiple places on the way down, having hit my head on multiple branches, the wooden railing of the tree house, and the ground on the way down. I became a talented mathematician. up until 9th grade, where a teacher destroyed my mathematic capability by forcing me to explain how I got to the results. I couldn't explain how I got there, because I didn't know how. I instantly knew the answers to the variables and to the equation. In the bit about brilliant, there was a cryptogram. I struggled with variable math the last time I tried it. this time, I solved it in a less than a second. I instantly knew. B can only equal 5 because given the positioning of 1B + B6 = 71 this inherently means that the numbers in the equation must be 15 + 56 = 71. I thought I had completely lost this ability, thank you!
brb giving myself a concussion
that line cuts across my screen
@@jacobtorris3428 lol yeah - same here :D
@@jacobtorris3428 lol yeah - same here :D
Percussive maintenance was the solution the whole time. Amazing.
Cm is the vi scale degree in Eb Major, and is a lovely, often wistful sounding interval.
Yes, it is more believable that there is Intersect capability already existing in our brains... Than that when presented with a new condition, the changes in the brain as well as the desire to return to normal... create leaps in ability by attacking the problem differently than before.
At 4 years old while in preschool, I was playing tag and tripped on a water hose, hitting my forehead on the corner of a metal sink (no fucking idea why there was a sink outside). Gash was a quarter sized, my dad told me that doctors had clear view of my brain. After that, as early as 7 years old I gained a crippling fear of mortality, and death. I constantly worried about the days where my parents would die, pets would die, and then I would wonder what comes after that? That young, I couldn’t rationalize any of it. Sometimes I think it was that fall that jolted my subconscious into worrying about death. Interesting video showing the positives of such events!
It must be the case information can be stored in the brain without us knowing just the fact that sometimes when you try to remember something you can't but then it all of a sudden it pops back into your mind.
Throughout history, different ancient people would practice Trepanning (drilling a hole in the skull). Maybe they did it to alleviate swelling. Maybe they did it as an attempt to unlock genius mode?
I am suspicious about the new found talent after brain damage - are they only reporting the good news, while ignoring the bad side effects?
Unfortunately for me, Brain damage from being run over by a drunk has robbed me of Genius, but I remember being Brilliant. : (
greggy weggy, just remembering is a Blessing. Smart is above some I know.lol so learn from what you know and build from that.You 'll be amazed at what you know but have not thought of it in different ways.A Genius is a state of mind.my Opinion is artistic people are real genius, but have room for dumbness. 😒😊
Are u joking or being serious
2:59 pretty sure we don't actually know that genetic memories exist.
Fantastic documentary!
"To help unlock your brain true potential..." try bashing your head in the wall
I believe everyone of us is a genius. All it takes is the ability and patients for you to be able to listen to your self and keep practicing certain thought patterns/rhythms in your brain. You just need to practice thinking and concentration/focus. Your brain is like a muscle, the more you exercise it the stronger it becomes. Your brain is also very elastic and stretchy and the more stretching it the more you can do with it the more intelligence you release. Don't ignore your thoughts or your weaknesses but you think you have, use them as an advantage and they will become your strengths. I really have no idea what I'm talking about, I can barely read or write.
Very nice education
I appreciate you for that
Please continue like this knowledge
Perhaps the doubt function is recursive and resource intensive on the brain and is one of the first higher functions to be disabled by the brain just as the its heal from any damage.
This has got to be the only accurate characterization of Jung's idea of the collective unconscious on the internet. So used to hearing it described as some sort of shared psychic connection that whenever it comes up I'm like "oh no".
Whoa! These are some of the *realest superhero/mutant origin stories!*
I'm pretty skeptical about the first guy. I can maybe imagine getting your neurons scrambled in just the right way might make it where you have a greater ability to understand music, but playing piano is about WAY more than your brain. It involves muscle memory which literally takes thousands of hours to develop. And it literally happens in the muscles and even the bones of your hands, so a knock on the head isn't going to affect that at all.
Warning: After watching this video don't try to damage your brain. 😂
Great information thank you.
Really? A video about brain damage doesn’t have subtitles turned on? Oh the irony, since I need subtitles due to brain damage. 🤦🏻♀️
Kids with autism have a photographic memory and are great at math.
Stephen Wiltshire is a man who was born with autism. He can draw entire cityscapes by going on one helicopter ride and viewing it from the sky. He has his own art studio.
Whats the piano song called at 3:03?
I learned to play music without proper training and I've always been drawn towards rhythm and mentally isolating instruments at will so I can enjoy that part alone. Brain it's an incredible mystery.
Thank you for making so amazing videos. This channel is amazing ❤️🔥🔥.
Me: *smaking ma heads to the wall several times*
Well hope I am a genius now
I'm curious how different musical systems such as that of Indonesia's Gamelan would fit into that universal musical experience idea. I'm currently in the process of reading _How Emotions are Made_ (by Lisa Feldman Barrett) and have started really questioning whether there's anything truly universal about our human experience.
This is amazing. The link to the finches resources isn’t working. Anyone have any links about that.
Still need that link stop the cap
Everyone can calm down I found some links don’t worry
09:55 What a BRILLIANT segway
It's all about seeing patterns. Our brain loves that stuff
4:03 thanks a lot for showing "chenda Mellam" :D :D :D
When you can't figure out a Baba is You puzzle but the answer comes to you in a dream.
After seeing this video
Me: Alexa have can I damage my brain
I think this is true cause when you heal things can change and get rewired and you could possibly think different.
Can you turn on closed captioning, please?
The concept of epigenic memories passed down from generations may be the answer.
Great video!
your videos are great, please add subtitles to your video, that would be helpful
The guy learned to play arpeggios, is all I can tell. These are simple sounds everyone has heard. For some reason he became fixated on them. If that's all your music is, you could learn that in a day, no problem. He had the manual dexterity to pick it up faster than average, possible, but as long as you can hear pitch, this is not at all complicated, musically.
and the fact htat he is not bound to a sheet of paper also really helps with creativity.
@@gabrielandradeferraz386 Uh, no, I don't hear anything freshly created here.
I can watch this channel all day.
I now require a compensation from my brain for all the times I've hit my head.
I taught myself how to Draw, Sing, And think, survive. I mainly follow my intuition, it also tells me to follow.
i have a TBI so have learned much about it and other peoples life after one! most do not gain abitys but loose many, but a few i know have gained! i have gathered rocks most my life but after my injury i fond i was very good at working them into jewelry, now is it always could?? i dont know! i was a very outgoing person i traveled a lot! i would drive the 900 miles to see my mom for few hrs than drive back home! after i have problem just going to store , from my point on this video i say it do happen but more often a brain injury leaves you at a lost the other just cant see so think you must be faking
Me : Looks at wall.
My head : Sudden urge to kiss it.
Where can I get the music Used in this video?
art, maths included is raw, maybe that's why there's no one hit their head and become expert in chemistry immediately, but resort to art and / or maths first?
It's an amazing channel I've ever come across.
wait. so youre saying my brain isnt really just poop, but genius poop?
The catch of this scheme is if you don't actually die.
I wish humans would stop spending resources into war and spent them into truly understanding our own brain...
i find often times that i will start to learn a new skill and starting off im horrible so i take a break and the next day ive improved a lot as if just sleeping made me better at it
i'm not sure if this is similar to how these people are, maybe we learn a skill overtime slowly because we already know how to do the skill, but our brain limits how quickly we can learn. I think it's cool to think about it like that
This locked knowledge might explain why mankind always pushes forward in sciences, technology, art, everything.
I think written language is a better explanation.
Fascinating topic. Scientifically mysterious.