Jason Padgett's life was changed forever after he was attacked in a bar back in 2002 as he developed a rare ability called Acquired Savant Syndrome.

They can excel at organization and attention to detail. Some may even have the ever-fascinating savant syndrome. Neurodiversity is the idea that variation in brain function exists across the ...

All hope to weave the unique features of autism—such as social challenges, savant syndrome, or the sex difference in diagnoses—into a coherent framework with which to understand the condition.

Morrow went on to pen the script for the 1988 film Rain Man, basing Dustin Hoffman’s character on Peek. The concept of savant syndrome dates back to 1887, when physician J. Langdon Down coined the ...