{"id":82050,"date":"2018-08-25T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-1-mans-brain-injury-turned-him-into-a-math-savant"},"modified":"2018-08-25T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T22:50:52","slug":"how-1-mans-brain-injury-turned-him-into-a-math-savant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-1-mans-brain-injury-turned-him-into-a-math-savant","title":{"rendered":"How 1 man\u2019s brain injury turned him into a math savant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-1-mans-brain-injury-turned-him-into-a-math-savant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason Padgett grew up struggling in school \u2014 until one night in 2002 when he was attacked in a bar and everything changed. Padgett said after the incident, he was using areas of the brain he didn\u2019t previously have access to; he experienced choppy vision, was drawing intricate shapes and was seeing complex mathematical objects everywhere. Dr. Darold Treffert, a world renowned expert on savants, later diagnosed Padgett with acquired savant syndrome, which explained Padgett\u2019s new skills. Padgett joins Megyn Kelly TODAY to share his story.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/wellness\/how-1-man-s-brain-injury-turned-him-into-a-math-savant\/vi-BBMnOXH?ocid=ARWLCHR\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/wellness\/how-1-man-s-brain-...id=ARWLCHR<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Padgett grew up struggling in school \u2014 until one night in 2002 when he was attacked in a bar and everything changed. Padgett said after the incident, he was using areas of the brain he didn\u2019t previously have access to; he experienced choppy vision, was drawing intricate shapes and was seeing complex mathematical objects [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}