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How brain trauma can unlock extraordinary abilities

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Acquired Savant Syndrome is the rarest and most baffling glitch in human neurology. Occasionally, severe trauma to the left hemisphere of the brain inexplicably unlocks dormant, superhuman abilities in the right hemisphere. Completely average people survive massive concussions only to wake up mysteriously capable of playing complex classical piano or visually calculating prime numbers despite zero previous training.

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