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    Savant syndrome (/ˈsævənt, sæˈvɑːnt/ SAV-ənt, sə-VAHNT, US also /səˈvɑːnt/ sav-AHNT) is a phenomenon where someone demonstrates exceptional aptitude in...
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  • Jason Padgett (category Acquired savants)
    Jason D. Padgett is an American artist diagnosed with alleged acquired savant syndrome. He was born in 1970 in Anchorage, Alaska. As a young man, he dropped...
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  • memory is also prevalent in those with savant syndrome and mnemonists. Hyperthymesia, or hyperthymesitic syndrome, is superior autobiographical memory,...
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    Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, was a diagnosis used to describe a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by...
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    Patrick Fagerberg (category Acquired savants)
    case of Savant syndrome, in which people acquire savant-like skills in art, music and/or mathematics due to a brain injury. Fagerberg's savant case is...
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  • Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, other close family member...
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  • Look up Savant or savant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A savant is someone with savant syndrome. Savant may also refer to: Côte de Savant, the Chablis...
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    for languages. Savant syndrome is almost always associated with an increased memory capacity of some sort, which can, for certain savants, aid in storing...
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    Daniel Tammet (category Autistic savants)
    English writer and savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best...
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    autistic savant is an autistic person with extreme talent in one or more areas of study. Although there is a common association between savant syndrome and...
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  • English actor Freddie Highmore. An autistic surgical resident with savant syndrome at the fictional San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, Murphy develops...
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  • who specialized in the epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders and savant syndrome. He lived in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He was on the staff at Agnesian...
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  • reproduction, which in exceptional cases are considered a part of the savant syndrome. One study describes how some autistic people show superior skills...
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  • accurate portrayal of what an individual with savant syndrome might act like. His mimicry of Peek's savant syndrome was deemed a poor fit for the character...
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  • illness by carers (FII) and first named as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) after Munchausen syndrome, is a mental health disorder in which a caregiver...
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  • autistic savant is not always appropriate for all savant cases. Only half of individuals with savant syndrome are autistic. The other half of the savant population...
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    Autism spectrum Autism Asperger syndrome High-functioning autism PDD-NOS Savant syndrome Dementia AIDS dementia complex Alzheimer's disease Creutzfeldt–Jakob...
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    Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) or Episodic dyscontrol syndrome (EDS) is a mental and behavioral disorder characterized by explosive outbursts of...
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  • refers to a label historically directed toward autistic people with savant syndrome. Four contestants competed through an entire week of shows (Monday...
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    Kim Peek (category Savants)
    investigate Kim's savant abilities. A 2008 study concluded that Peek probably had FG syndrome, a rare X chromosome-linked genetic syndrome that causes physical...
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  • Factitious disorder imposed on self, also known as Munchausen syndrome, is a factitious disorder in which those affected feign or induce disease, illness...
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  • experiment by the Rising Peace Academy to develop orphaned children with savant syndrome into human weapons. They befriend Lisa, a lonely high school girl,...
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  • Seizures Brain tumor Post-concussion syndrome Metabolic abnormalities Migraines Vertigo Meniere's disease Visual snow syndrome Panic attack Phobias Post-traumatic...
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  • Klüver–Bucy syndrome is a syndrome resulting from lesions of the medial temporal lobe, particularly Brodmann area 38, causing compulsive eating, hypersexuality...
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  • Somatic symptom disorder is frequently associated with functional pain syndromes like fibromyalgia and IBS. Somatic symptom disorder typically leads to...
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    1023/A:1005596502855. PMID 11055459. S2CID 16706630. Treffert DA (May 2009). "The savant syndrome: an extraordinary condition. A synopsis: past, present, future". Philosophical...
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    Rumination syndrome, or merycism, is a chronic motility disorder characterized by effortless regurgitation of most meals following consumption, due to...
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  • Sandifer syndrome Sanfilippo syndrome Sanjad-Sakati syndrome SAPHO syndrome Satoyoshi syndrome Savant syndrome Say syndrome Say–Meyer syndrome Scalp–ear–nipple...
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  • decreased state of consciousness. The syndrome has also been called nonsense syndrome, balderdash syndrome, syndrome of approximate answers, hysterical pseudodementia...
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  • 3 years old. This is only the case for 5–8% of preschool children. Savant syndrome Nonverbal autism Language delay § Consequences of language delay Camarata...
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