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The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to…

— Darold Treffert

Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on…

— Darold Treffert

When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to…

— Darold Treffert

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic description don't…

— Darold Treffert

What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be, but we…

— Darold Treffert

With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all…

— Darold Treffert

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

— Darold Treffert

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain…

— Darold Treffert

I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then…

— Darold Treffert

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

— Darold Treffert

We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched…

— Darold Treffert

Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested…

— Darold Treffert