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Foreword by Daniel Tammet. Preface. Introduction: Sightseeing on an Incredible Journey. Part 1. The Mind of the Savant. 1. What We Do Know: A Rare but Remarkable Condition. 2. How Do They Do It? Some Earlier Theories from Heredity to Quantum Theory. 3. How Do They Do It? More Recent Findings: Rewiring, Recruitment and Release. 4. Genetic Memory: How Do We Know Things We Never Learned? 5. More Medical Mysteries:Calendars, Cantors, Foreign Accents and Hypermensia. Part 2. The World of the Savant. 6. The Genius of Earlswood Asylum and Blind Tom: Some EarlySavants. 7. Leslie and May: ''Two Memorable People''. 8. Alonzo: ''God Gives the Gift''. 9. George: It's Fantastic I Can Do That''. 10. Kim: ''The Real RainMan''. 11. Ellen: ''With a Song in Her Heart''. 12. Tony: ''Against All Odds''. 13. Temple: ''An Emergence Extraordinaire''. 14. Matt: ''In the Key of Genius''. 15.Flo and Kay: An Unforgettable ''Two of a Kind''. 16. Daniel: ''Numbers Are My Friends''. 17. Stephen: ''A Rocket of Young Talent''. 18. Ping Lian, Gregory,Richard and Some Others: Artwork of the Prodigious Savant. 19. Raymond Babbit in Rain Man: The World's Best Known Savant. Part 3. Significant NewDimensions to Savant Syndrome. 20. ''Accidental Genius'': The Acquired Savant. 21. ''Sudden Genius'': An Epiphany of Talent. 22. ''Normal Genius'': DormantSkills Within Us All? 23. Accessing the ''Inner Savant'' Within Us All. 24. The Bountiful Brain: Half a Brain (Or Less) May Be Enough. Part 4. Training theTalent: ''I've Got a Son or Daughter Who...''. 25. Music: Teaching Music to the Special Needs Client: A Music Therapist's Approach. 26. Art: ''Training theTalent'' in Art and Other Skills: An Educator's Approach. 27. Mathematics: Teaching Autistic Numerical Savants: A Specific Approach that Worked. Part 5.Our Journey Has Just Begun. 28. New Tools and New Optimism: The Trail Ahead for the Mind of the Savant. 29. Oval Souls on a Round Planet: The TrailAhead for the World of the Savant. References. Appendix: Books About, and Books By, Savants. Subject Index. Author Index.