Temple Grandin, an author and public speaker/advocate for autism, claims that animals typically behave like people with autism. While Grandin’s work with autism can be a blog in itself, a LiveScience article by Marc Bekoff disproves her claims using a study titled, “Are Animals Autistic Savants?” Long story short, the answer is no, but what I wanted to focus on is what Bekoff means by “savants” and more specifically, savant […]
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Inside the Brains of Psychopaths
Continuing on from my last mental health blog post “Sociopaths are not Psychopaths,” this blog post will focus in on one specific difference between the two groups of -paths. One major physical difference is discovered in the human brain in relation to how much brain activity a person exhibits. Many psychopaths display a distinctive pattern of brain activity after receiving PET scans. The scans below display reduced activity in an […]