Extraordinary People: The Savant Syndrome - Darold A. Treffert, M.D.

Extraordinary People: The Savant Syndrome - Darold A. Treffert, M.D. Part of the 10th Annual International Bioethics Forum, "Manifesting the Mind" which was ...
Darold Treffert, a physician who has studied savantism for many years, has chronicled the ways that people with no artistic interest or talent can suddenly develop a passion for painting or music after experiencing head trauma or other types of brain insult.

Acquired savantism—the name for this phenomenon—appears to activate less-used brain circuitry that allows processing of images or sounds in new ways.