People with savantsyndrome may have neurodevelopmental disorders, notably autism spectrum disorders, or brain injuries.
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Dustin Hoffman gave a good impression of the savantsyndrome in the 1988 film Rain Man.
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The savantsyndrome is the term now used for a condition originally called the idiot savantsyndrome.
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Jason Padgett has acquired savantsyndrome - he became a mathematical genius after a vicious assault 12 years ago.
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Widener has " savantsyndrome", the general term for people who have high-functioning abilities coexisting with autism spectrum disorders.
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He also mentions alternative labels: talented imbecile, parament, talented ament, retarded savant, schizophrenic savant, autisticsavant.
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Hoffman's character in the 1988 film is an autisticsavant with exceptional mental abilities but difficulty relating to other people.
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THE popular 1988 film, Rain Man, stars Dustin Hoffman as an autisticsavant, and Tom Cruise as Hoffman's younger, materialistic and cynical brother.
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He has written several definitive books on the topic, and was a consultant on the film Rain Man, featuring Dustin Hoffman as an autisticsavant.
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Shaking his head for focus, Hamish bent closer and repeated his question louder, interrupting Lacey's intense labor with the autisticsavant and the Jamaican science-maestro.
Ús de idiot savant en anglès
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My freshman roommate was an idiotsavant who smoked dope all day.
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For our purposes, Herlander Simões is something of an idiotsavant.
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So he surrounded himself with sycophants, and the odd idiotsavant.
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The idiotsavant who made the best bread any of us had ever tasted.
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He's more of idiotsavant than a straight up idiot.
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The savant syndrome is the term now used for a condition originally called the idiotsavant syndrome.
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Among the five hundred or so patients at the sanatorium was a remarkable idiotsavant named Harry.
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When applied to a researcher, it creates an idiotsavant, without a life beyond short-range research goals.
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Tommy had proven himself much more than an idiotsavant-hehad become a wizard of improvisation and stealth.
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To the subterranean rooms to which Eustace Barring-ton's idiotsavant son had been banished at the age of five.
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An idiotsavant hears a piano concerto and replays it masterfully, although he or she cannot add two and two.
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At one point, Tom Kettle, a sort of English idiotsavant, sets the tone with a line from Henry Thoreau.
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Speck is, however, an idiotsavant as a hobbyist, creating utterly charming dioramas out of stuffed mice wearing tiny costumes.
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Look, you don't know this about me yet, but I'm like an idiotsavant, except I've just got the idiot part.
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A matchbox falls and the idiotsavant can state, without looking at the box, the exact number of matches that fell out.
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Most of Schubert's friends remembered him as a sort of permanently tipsy idiotsavant; this image was standard in the nineteenth century.