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Monday, January 12, 2009 at 11:00 am

Autistic savant Daniel Tammet has a one-in-a-million mind, and an uncanny ability to talk about it. Now he looks to neurology to explain all human minds – his and yours.

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Monday, January 14, 2008 at 11:00 am

Lizzie Gottlieb’s brother Nicky was never like most other kids. Very smart, but talked late, walked late, didn’t make eye contact, didn’t socially connect.
It wasn’t until he was 20 that Nicky was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a kind of high-functioning neurological cousin of autism that is being diagnosed in more and more young Americans.
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