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Ingenious Minds

Ingenious Minds (2010)

December. 15,2010

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Ingenious Minds

Ingenious Minds is a documentary television anthology series that debuted in the United States in 2010 about savants. It was broadcast on Science Channel, part of Discovery Communications, with each episode lasting 30 minutes.

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Ingenious Minds

2010

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2010

8 Episode

Episode 1 - Jon Sarkin

December. 15,2010

In 1988, a successful chiropractor and family man suffers a sudden and nearly fatal brain hemorrhage. After recovering from his brush with death, Jon Sarkin was overcome with the urge to create art. This born-again artist's work has been featured in a number of major publications and news outlets worldwide.

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Episode 2 - Rex Lewis-Clack

December. 15,2010

Born with severe brain damage and completely blind, medical professionals believed Rex Lewis-Clack would never be able to walk, speak or anything else associated with a normal human life. Little did they know that Rex would become a true musical savant even before his eighth birthday.

Episode 3 - George Widener

February. 17,2011

Episode 4 - Derek Amato

February. 17,2011

Derek Amato is one of the world's only acquired savants after a brain injury left him with the amazing ability to play piano, an instrument he had never played before. But now the music never stops.

Episode 5 - John Robison

February. 24,2011

John Robison is an accomplished mechanical engineer and a savant with Asperger's Syndrome. Cutting-edge Harvard research is hoping to help John overcome the social difficulties Asperger's presents by increasing his ability to empathize.

Episode 6 - Robert Gagno

February. 24,2011

Robert Gagno is a young man with autism and a peculiar talent: he is one of the top-ranked pinball players in the world. He journeys to the Mayo Clinic to meet with a neurologist to examine how his brain is hard-wired for pinball wizardry.

Episode 7 - Alonzo Clemons

March. 03,2011

Alonzo Clemons can't read, write or drive a car, but he can see an animal, even for a split-second, and create an incredibly accurate sculpture in mere minutes. Alonzo meets with neurologists at the Mayo Clinic to see how brain damage can actually improve brain function for just one skill.

Episode 8 - Temple Grandin

March. 03,2011

In 2010, Temple Grandin was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. She has changed how the 70 billion dollar beef industry treats animals, and she's changing the way people think about autism.