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What began as an insignificant birthmark would grow into a 14st Neurofibromatosis Tumour which would need 18 hours of surgery to remove.
After 18 hours of surgery and 50 pints of blood the tumour was removed. This left Lori with a 40% skin loss which over the next 8 weeks would require 5 major skin grafts.
Leonid Stadnyk is a giant of a man. His colossal size is due to a tumour below his pituitary gland causing the release of excess growth hormone.
One of the world’s leading specialists is going to meet Leonid to see if he can save the life of the tallest man in the world.
Lawrence Koomson is 33 years old and has not gone through puberty. He has Kallman’s Syndrome where the hypothalamus causes a hormonal imbalance.
As a teenager in Ghana, Lawrence was quiet and withdrawn, and did not show the usual teenage interest in rough and tumble sports or in girls.
George Widener is a prodigious savant. Give him any date in history and he will tell you what day of the week it was. A remarkable talent of an autistic mind.
It’s not just brain impairment at birth that brings about savant skills. There’s powerful evidence that brain damage can trigger the release of hidden talents much later in life.
Kim Peek is probably the world’s most famous savant. Made famous by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man; a confounding mix of disability and brilliance.
Kim Peek may be the greatest savant we have ever known, he is certainly the best known and more than entitled to be referred to as a mega-savant.
Tommy McHugh became an obsessive painter and poet after a massive brain haemorrhage. The accidental genius was created by a huge aneurysm.
For Tommy his horror story has a happy ending. He acquired his savant like ability through a near fatal trauma but he is, in his own slightly-crazy way, content.
The unbelievable truth behind cases of foetal theft, where pregnant women are killed or horribly mutilated for their unborn babies.
Psychiatrist Professor Michael Welner of NYU School of Medicine is undertaking a study to build a profile of offenders and the dynamics of their crimes. he believes that a key element is a past or recent relationship which has broken down or is endangered.
Dystonia is thought to be caused by a malfunction in the part of the brain called the basal ganglia, this affects the way sensory signals are interpreted.
Janet has discovered that playing the flute allows her to focus her mind on reading the sheet music and playing the instrument.
Derek Paravicini is blind, autistic and musically brilliant. Considered to be a savant his skill is to be a pitch-perfect musical prodigy.
People compare Derek Paravicini with Art Tatum, the great, blind, jazz pianist from the early 20th century. His name is occasionally mis-spelt as Paraviccini.
Daniel Tammet exhibits stunning mental, mathematical abilities. His incredible brain can calculate mathematical problems with extraordinary accuracy.
Daniel sees numbers as shapes and colours. It is a rare talent and may indicate a form of autism.
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