Autism
. . .and Savantism
To explain both of these conditions we propose a model where the
interaction between the astrocytes and the neurons is dysfunctional
to some degree for rason we are unsure of.
If
this was the case then the upshot of this would be far less (almost
none) astrocytes interrogating the neurons allowing the neurons
to fire faster and as a consequence the brain would be able to sequence
events far more efficiently. The savant can sequence numbers, words
and even artistic elements with ease but they would only be able
to recall what they had seen, heard or experienced via their senses.
In this model the true savant would have no capacity to be creative
in any way at all as they would not have the capacity to ever form
conceptual frameworks, only being able to learn via rote.
