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The "Acquired" Savant- "Accidental" Genius
- thefool 16y agoMoral of the story: Anything that could simulate FTD would be temporarily would be one hell of a drug.
- dfranke 16y agoIt's going to take more than a handful of cherry-picked anecdotes to convince me that this condition really exists.
- wazoox 16y agoThere are a several similar examples in Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia. It provides some explanations, too.
- dfranke 16y agoWake me up when somebody has a means of inducing the condition that they can show is more reliable than a placebo.
- wazoox 16y agoThese conditions appear after seriously traumatic incident, generally. The fact that we cannot double-blind test them doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There /is/ a correlation with some physical brain alterations.
- gcheong 16y agoThere has been some interesting research done using transcranial magnetic stimulation: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html