INDIANAPOLIS — Would you believe that you could somehow acquire astonishing new abilities in areas you never had before, like music, art or math? It’s called sudden genius syndrome or savant syndrome.

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the extraordinary savant ability surfaces in early childhood. In acquired savant syndrome astonishing new abilities, typically in music, art or mathematics, appear unexpectedly in ordinary persons ...

Savant Syndrome is a rare condition, with only 319 recorded cases. Persons so diagnosed possess unexpected and sometimes prodigious abilities in stark juxtaposition to underlying neurodevelopmental ...

Your checkbook’s a mess. It’s not really your fault. For some reason, you just don’t “get” numbers. Math eludes you completely. You have other talents, of course, but addition and subtraction aren’t ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – What you see… isn’t what he sees. And for Jason Padgett, it all started with a violent attack and a serious head injury. “When you see something move, your brain is taking ...