X-Message-Number: 15850 From: "Jan Coetzee" <> Subject: Unlocking the brain's potential Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:44:11 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008D_01C0AB45.F4AAC7E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" BBC NEWS ONLINE Saturday, 10 March, 2001, 08:31 GMT Unlocking the brain's potential Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows. The discovery was made after studying people with autism and dementia, but an Australian scientist believes ordinary people may one day be able to "tap in" and allow them at least a moment of genius. And in recent tests, five volunteers found their abilities were improved after the particular area of the brain was temporarily "switched off". Fragments of Genius explores the amazing talents of people like Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man who has an incredible ability to draw buildings in specific and accurate detail after seeing them just once In the 1988 film Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman portrayed Raymond, an autistic savant with brilliant maths skills. Full text: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1211000/1211299.stm ------=_NextPart_000_008D_01C0AB45.F4AAC7E0 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15850