caa a22 4500 388094532 CHVBK 20180307125301.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1092852900006830 doi S1092852900006830 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1092852900006830 Treffert Darold A. The Savant Syndrome and Autistic Disorder [Elektronische Daten] [Darold A. Treffert] Savant syndrome, characterized by remarkable islands of mental ability in otherwise mentally handicapped persons, may occur in autistic as well as nonautislic individuals. Overall, approximately 10% of autistic persons exhibit savant abilities; roughly 50% of those with savant syndrome have autism, and the remaining 50% have other forms of developmental disability. Most commonly, savant syndrome takes the form of extraordinary musical abilities, but may also include calendar-calculation, artistic, mathematical, spatial, mechanical, and memory skills. While savant syndrome was first described more than a century ago, only recently have researchers begun to employ a more uniform nomenclature and more standardized testing in an effort to compare the abilities of savants with those of normal persons. Males show signs of savant syndrome approximately four times more often than females. Along with imaging study findings, this fact suggests the presence of a developmental disorder involving left-brain damage with right-brain compensation. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 CNS Spectrums Cambridge University Press 4/12(1999-12), 57-60 1092-8529 4:12<57 1999 4 CNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900006830 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900006830 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Treffert Darold A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- CNS Spectrums Cambridge University Press 4/12(1999-12), 57-60 1092-8529 4:12<57 1999 4 CNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge