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Savant syndrome | |
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Other names | Autistic savant, idiot savant (historical)[1] |
Kim Peek, the savant who was the inspiration for the main character in the movie Rain Man | |
Specialty | Neurology, psychiatry |
Symptoms | General mental disability with certain abilities far in excess of average[1][2] |
Types | Congenital, acquired[3] |
Causes | Neurodevelopmental disorder such as autism spectrum disorder, brain injury[1] |
Frequency | c. 1 in a million people[4] |
Savant syndrome is a condition in which someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrates certain abilities far in excess of average.[1][2] The skills at which savants excel are generally related to memory.[1] This may include rapid calculation, artistic ability, map making, or musical ability.[1] Usually just one special skill is present.[1]
Those with the condition generally have a neurodevelopmental disorder such as autism spectrum disorder or have a brain injury.[1] About half of the cases are associated with autism and may be known as 'autistic savants'.[1] While the condition usually becomes apparent in childhood, some cases may develop later in life.[1] It is not recognized as a mental disorder within the DSM-5.[5]
The condition is rare.[1] One estimate is that it affects about one in a million people.[4] Cases of female savants are even less common than those of males.[1] The first medical account of the condition was in 1783.[1] Among those with autism between 1 in 10 to 200 have savant syndrome to some degree.[1] It is estimated that there are fewer than a hundred savants with extraordinary skills currently living.[1]
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Signs and symptoms[edit]
Venice by the artistic savant Stephen Wiltshire
Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, memory, arithmetic, musical abilities, and spatial skills.[1] The most common kinds of savants are calendrical savants,[6][7] 'human calendars' who can calculate the day of the week for any given date with speed and accuracy, or recall personal memories from any given date. Advanced memory is the key 'superpower' in savant abilities.[6]
Approximately half of savants are autistic; the other half often have some form of central nervous system injury or disease.[1]It is estimated that 10% of those with autism have some form of savant abilities.[1][8][9]
Calendrical savants[edit]
A calendrical savant (or calendar savant) is someone who – despite having an intellectual disability – can name the day of the week of a date, or vice versa, in a few seconds or even a tenth of a second, on a limited range of decades or certain millennia.[7][third-party source needed] These savants are mostly autistic.[citation needed] The rarity of human calendar calculators is possibly due to the lack of motivation to develop such skills among the general population.[10] Calendrical savants, on the other hand, may not be prone to invest in socially engaging skills.[10]
Mechanism[edit]
Psychological[edit]
No widely accepted cognitive theory explains savants' combination of talent and deficit.[11] It has been suggested that individuals with autism are biased towards detail-focused processing and that this cognitive style predisposes individuals either with or without autism to savant talents.[12] Another hypothesis is that savants hyper-systemize, thereby giving an impression of talent. Hyper-systemizing is an extreme state in the empathizing–systemizing theory that classifies people based on their skills in empathizing with others versus systemizing facts about the external world.[13] Also, the attention to detail of savants is a consequence of enhanced perception or sensory hypersensitivity in these unique individuals.[13][14] It has also been confirmed that some savants operate by directly accessing low-level, less-processed information that exists in all human brains that is not normally available to conscious awareness.[15]
Neurological[edit]
In some cases, savant syndrome can be induced following severe head trauma to the left anterior temporal lobe.[1] Savant syndrome has been artificially replicated using transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily disable this area of the brain.[16]
Epidemiology[edit]
There are no objectively definitive statistics about how many people have savant skills. The estimates range from 'exceedingly rare'[17] to one in ten people with autism having savant skills in varying degrees.[1] A 2009 British study of 137 parents of autistic children found that 28% believe their children met the criteria for a savant skill, defined as a skill or power 'at a level that would be unusual even for 'normal' people'.[18] As many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported.[19][20]
Males with savant syndrome outnumber females by roughly 6:1,[21] slightly higher than the sex ratio disparity for autism spectrum disorders of 4.3:1.[22]
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History[edit]
The term idiot savant (French for 'learned idiot') was first used to describe the condition in 1887 by John Langdon Down, who is known for his description of Down syndrome. The term idiot savant was later described as a misnomer because not all reported cases fit the definition of idiot, originally used for a person with a very severe intellectual disability. The term autistic savant was also used as a description for the disorder. Like idiot savant, the term came to be considered a misnomer because only half of those who were diagnosed with savant syndrome were autistic. Upon realization of the need for accuracy of diagnosis and dignity towards the individual, the term savant syndrome became widely accepted terminology.[1][17]
Society and culture[edit]
Notable cases[edit]
- Alonzo Clemons, acquired savant sculptor
- Anthony Cicoria, acquired savant pianist and medical doctor
- Daniel Tammet, author and polyglot
- Derek Amato, composer and pianist
- Derek Paravicini, blind musical prodigy and pianist
- Kim Peek, 'megasavant'
- Leslie Lemke, musician
- Matt Savage, musician
- Orlando Serrell, acquired savant
- Stephen Wiltshire, architectural artist
- Temple Grandin,[23] professor of animal science
- Tom Wiggins, blind American pianist and composer[24]
- Tommy McHugh, artist and poet
Fictional cases[edit]
- Park Shi-on, autistic savant in the 2013 Korean medical drama The Good Doctor
- Raymond Babbitt, autistic savant in the 1988 film Rain Man (inspired by Kim Peek)
- Shaun Murphy, autistic savant in the U.S. medical drama The Good Doctor
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^Treffert DA. 'The Autistic Savant'. Wisconsin Medical Society.
- ^'Savant Syndrome Statistics'. Health Research Funding. 2014-07-12.
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- ^Pring, Linda (2005). 'Savant talent'. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 47 (7): 500–503. doi:10.1017/S0012162205000976.
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- ^''A ski accident left me with advanced mental abilities': US woman tells her extraordinary story'. Daily Telegraph. 17 April 2015.
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External links[edit]
- Derek Amato, piano player with Savant Syndrome
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Snapped: Killer Couples | |
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Genre | True crime Docudrama |
Written by | Matt Edens Eric Wetherington Brian O'Connor Geoffrey Proud Todd Moss |
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Composer(s) | Brian Langsbard Justin Melland |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
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Executive producer(s) | Erica Diaz-Gant Kimberly Chessler Amy Introcaso-Davis Stephen Land Deborah Allen Zak Weisfeld Geoffrey Proud |
Producer(s) | Michael Rogers Donna Dudek Elizabeth Gibson Katie Harrington Cecile Bouchardeau David Lane Melissa May Todd Moss Jane Nowiski Brian O'Connor Valerie Shepherd Mariel Sykes Eric Wetherington |
Cinematography | Paul Foster Eric Futrell Erin Althaus Jeffrey Woods |
Running time | 30 minutes/60 minutes |
Production company(s) | Jupiter Entertainment[1] |
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Original network | Oxygen |
Original release | June 3, 2013 – present |
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Snapped: Killer Couples (or simply Killer Couples) is an Americantelevision series currently airing on the Oxygen Network. The program details couples who commit crimes together. The program is a spin-off of the Oxygen series Snapped[2] and has a similar format to the Investigation Discovery program Wicked Attraction.[3] The show is currently in its eleventh season, which had begun airing in January 2019. The current narrator is Anna Vocino.[4]
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Synopsis[edit]
The series is similar to parent show Snapped, except that each episode features a couple who have committed murder or attempted murder or have been accused of committing or attempting to commit murder. Like the original series, the program is presented in a documentary style, using a central voice-over narration by actress Anna Vocino, as well as interviews with people who have first-hand knowledge of the case.
Production[edit]
Snapped: Killer Couples first aired on March 10, 2013 with the episode, 'Amanda Logue & Jason Andrews'[5] The series is currently in its tenth season of production at Jupiter Entertainment. A successful spinoff of the original Snapped series, the show played an important part in Oxygen's transition to a completely crime-focused network in mid-2017. Oxygen currently refers to the program as simply Killer Couples, with no mention of the original Snapped series in the title.[6]
Episode Guide[edit]
Season One (2013)[edit]
- 'Amanda Logue and Jason Andrews' - A housewife turned porn star teams up with her co-star to commit murder after a wild sex party.
- 'Jennifer Henderson and Skylar Deleon' - A seemingly devout evangelical housewife and a former child star devise a scandalous murder plot that ends with a bizarre attempt at a sex change operation.
- 'Sarah Edmondson and Ben Darras' - A teenaged girl from a prominent political family falls for a boy with a sordid past, and the young lovers embark on a psychedelic road trip inspired by their favorite movie: Natural Born Killers.
- 'Tina Leja and Darnell Smith' - A homecoming queen turned prison guard falls in love with an inmate and finds herself willing to do anything to make him happy.
- 'Tylar Witt and Steven Colver' - This couple was the Romeo and Juliet of their time, but in order to spend eternity together they had to eliminate the person that stood in their way.
- 'Laura Hall and Colton Pitonyak' - The dismembered body of a young woman exposes the dark side of two former honor students.
- 'Elizabeth Turpin and Karen Brown' - A blood soaked scene leaves police to wonder if there's more than meets the eye between a young newlywed and her openly gay co-worker.
- 'Donna Moonda and Damian Bradford' - A shocking affair between a wealthy doctor's wife and a much younger bad boy ends in violence.
- 'Nicole Kasinskas and Billy Sullivan' - Teenage lovers become so obsessed with one another, they go to deadly ends to make sure they can stay together forever.
- 'Tabitha Messina and Carlos Christopher' - An argument over a borrowed cell phone links teenage lovers to a double homicide.
Season Two (2013–14)[edit]
- 'Tina Loesch and Skye Hanson' - A jailhouse romance between a woman and her cellmate leads to deadly results on the outside.
- 'Coty Martinez and Jeremy Brooks' - A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde embark on a two-month, multi-state crime wave that sends shockwaves across the country.
- 'Emilia Carr and Joshua Fulgham' - A bitter love triangle turns deadly after a jealous lover refuses to let go.
- 'Rachel Cumberland and John Williams' - A trucker couple traveling the highways of the United States are hiding a dark secret: they're road-bound maniacs with unquenchable appetites for wild sex, hard drugs, and cold-blooded murder.
- 'Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering' - A young socialite and the privileged son of a German diplomat contrive a deadly scheme to stay together.
- 'Tiffany Cole and Michael Jackson' - When two hard-partying lovers fall on hard times they turn to an elderly couple for help, but the older couple's generosity is soon repaid with cold-blooded betrayal.
- 'Cindy Hendy and David Parker Ray' - An escaped victim of the famous Toy Box Killings exposes a couple whose extreme tastes for sadism and death would shock the nation.
- 'Alicia Woodward and John Esposito' - A summer romance takes a dark turn when two outcast teens turn a cross-country joy ride into a full on killing spree.
- 'Cynthia Coffman and James Marlow' - A pair of sociopathic lovers fall in love after being locked up in the same jail - and their obsession for one another is only matched by their dual addiction for rampant crime and unbridled mayhem.
- 'Suzan Carson and Michael Carson' - Two lost and lonely hippies fall in love, deciding to turn their backs on the modern world for a life of hallucinogenic drugs, new-age religion, and a multi-state murder spree.
Season Three (2014)[edit]
- 'Christa Pike and Tadaryl Shipp' - A pair of troubled teens take their dark obsessions to the extreme when their romance is threatened by a classmate.
- 'Brenda Andrew and James Pavatt' - Two Sunday school teachers become cold-blooded killers when they conspire to murder one of their spouses for insurance money.
- 'Tracey Poirier and Tamara Upton' - Two lesbians seduce a pool shark, Donald Fish, and take him to a park, and end up stoning him to his death.
- 'Raelynne Simonin and David Danylchuk' - Two lovers conspire to commit murder - and get their hands on a million dollar insurance payout.
- 'Darlene George and Rennie Cassimy' - An extramarital affair heats up when two lovers conspire to kill one of their spouses in order to avoid losing everything in a divorce.
- 'Jennifer Walter and Christopher Gregory' - Two sex-obsessed strip club employees start a passionate relationship that quickly turns into a dance with death.
- 'Jennifer Mee and Lamont Newton' - A bizarre hiccupping affliction gives a teen her 15 minutes of fame. But when the limelight fades she finds her adrenaline rush in a relationship with a bad boy, and uses social networking to lure a man to his death.
- 'Deidre Hunt and Kosta Fotopolous' - After a murder-for-hire goes dreadfully awry, surprise video evidence may help police prove just how far this couple is willing to go to rule the Daytona empire.
- 'Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo' - A couple's mutual passion for sex and torture destroys the lives of everyone they encounter.
- 'Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood' - A pair of female serial killers turn a nursing home into a hotbed of sex, scandal, and murder.
Season Four (2014–15)[edit]
- 'Amanda Hayes and Grant Hayes' - A turbulent love triangle takes a deadly turn - leaving behind a dismembered body, and a killer couple pointing the finger at each other in the aftermath.
- 'Brittany Smith and Jabrai Copney' - An Ivy League student and a music producer's criminal activities are discovered when a failed drug deal leads to murder.
- 'Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio' - A couple's dark sexual cravings lead to a series of assaults that only become more gruesome as things heat up.
- 'Sara Aldrete and Adolfo Constanzo' - In the Mexican desert, two cult leaders' passion for torture and human sacrifice is exposed when they pick the wrong victim.
- 'Carol Bundy and Douglas Clark' - A one-night stand turns into a romance from hell after a woman learns of her lover's dark and deadly desires.
- 'Charlene and Gerald Gallego' - When a sexually charged love affair spins out of control, two lovers go to extreme lengths to satisfy their desires and the consequences are deadly.
- 'Mona Watson and Michael Howell' - An ex-con and a victim of domestic abuse turn into a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde when their drug-fueled romance leads to a tri-state killing spree.
- 'Donna Slaughter and Jason Slaughter' - A married couple's twisted scheme is exposed when they conspire to murder the husband's secret lover.
- 'Nancy Rish and Danny Edwards' - A desperate couple kidnaps a wealthy businessman which leads to murder.
- 'Dawn Godman and Justin Helzer' - Inspired by a zealous prophet, two lovers set out on a deadly mission to prove their devotion to each other and their bizarre religion.
Season Five (2015)[edit]
- 'Diane Zamora and David Graham' - The passionate romance between two academy-bound high school sweethearts turns deadly when a youthful indiscretion leads to cold-blooded murder.
- 'Christina Marcum and Jason Singleton' - Two obsessed ex-lovers reunite, but their adulterous affair turns deadly when they conspire to get rid of his wife.
- 'Samantha Bachynski and Patrick Selepak' - A naïve 19-year-old honor student falls in love with an ex-convict, and finds herself part of a sadistic killing spree.
- 'Kat McDonough and Seth Mazzaglia' - A couple's lifestyle of kink and domination turns deadly when an unwitting college girl enters the picture.
- 'Kimberlly Michaud and Jimmy Dale Kelley' - A small-town mother finds herself captivated by an ex-convict, and soon learns the fatal consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- 'Miranda and Elytte Barbour' - A twisted sense of justice leads a pair of demented newlyweds to lure an unsuspecting victim on Craigslist.
- 'Chie Coggins-Johnson and Scott Barker' - The son of a wealthy film producer is found stabbed to death in his Beverly Hills mansion.
- 'Antoinette Frank and Rogers Lacaze' - A scandalous love affair between a police officer and a criminal leads to a bloody triple murder.
- 'Kim and Eric Williams' - A Texas community is rocked when a series of revenge killings strike the DA's office.
- 'Susie Newsom and Fritz Klenner' - A forbidden affair leaves two lovers determined to keep their relationship a secret-even if it means killing anyone who poses a threat.
Season Six (2015)[edit]
- 'Stephanie Molino and Coty Young' - A hostile living environment between feuding couples leaves two dead and an apartment in flames.
- 'Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes' - A Virginia couple's desperation leaves their gay porn empire in ashes.
- 'Jennifer Pan and Daniel Wong' - Overprotective parents lead a love-struck couple down a murderous path.
- 'Dena Riley and Richard Davis' - A couples' lives heat up as they journey into the world of rough sex and snuff film, but they need some victims to make their dark dreams come true.
- 'Diana Haun and Micheal Dally' - Two love-obsessed grocery store employees find passion among the aisles and come up with a deadly plan to begin their lives together.
- 'Brandi Hungerford and Robert Lemke' - An Arizona high-roller's luck runs out when two strippers conspire to take his life.
- 'Antoinette Stephen and Kashif Parvaiz' - When attackers target a family on the side of the road in an apparent hate crime, investigators uncover a crime of passion, lust and revenge.
- 'Cassandra Kimbrough and Antonio Drayton' - A red-hot romance comes to a fiery end when jealousy threatens to rip two lovers apart in a crime of passion.
- 'Nicole Houchin and John Mackay' - Two married couples' infidelity leads to one deadly home invasion, and a shocking investigation that unveils a pair of unlikely suspects.
- 'Pamela Smart and Billy Flynn' - A sexy teacher and her teenaged lover hatch a plot that rocks a nation.
Season Seven (2016)[edit]
- 'Angela Hill and Logan McFarland' - A drug-crazed couple set off on a multi-state crime spree; a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde.
- 'Leslie and Mike Mackool' - When a family member ends up dead, detectives wonder if a money-hungry couple committed the crime or if they've been set up.
- 'Ruby Padgett and Mitchell Sims' - Two young lovers come up with a murderous revenge plot that will have multiple victims, but a few moments of negligence could turn their entire plan upside down.
- 'Katie Belflower and Mike Simons' - Before justice can be served in the death of a young bride, the accused murderers reveal a shocking twist that just might get them off the hook.
- 'John Hawkins and Gene Hanson' - A salesman and a hustler form a business and romantic partnership; when a medical tragedy proves to be unnatural, police uncover a twisted tale of sex, deception and conspiracy.
- 'Ny Nourn and Ronald Barker' - A withdrawn teen uses online chatrooms as an escape from her abusive home and discovers an attraction to older men, but she soon finds herself trapped in a deadly love triangle with a violent suitor.
- 'Victoria and Nathaniel Jackson' - When murder strikes a generous multi-millionaire, detectives uncover a mountain of family secrets, a history of sexual abuse and greedy young lovers in the center of it all.
- 'Lisa Toney and Sienky Lallemand' - A secret life of passion and extravagance is exposed, causing two lovers to take drastic and deadly measures to preserve it.
- 'Monserrate Shirley and Mark Leonard' - After a fatal gas explosion in a residential community, a divorcee and her new lover find themselves at the center of a twisted conspiracy.
- 'Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish' - The sudden death of a Las Vegas casino mogul might not be an accident, but rather the evil doings of his girlfriend and her secret lover.
Season Eight (2016)[edit]
- 'Christine Moody and Jeremy Moody' - A white supremacist couple's vigilantism ends in a double murder.
- 'Catherine Stanek-Cousins and Timothy Koile' - A suburban sex scandal uncovers a deadly secret which leads to a missing pilot.
- 'Debra Canady and Brent Starr' - A cougar and her new boyfriend devise a vicious plot to get rid of an old boyfriend.
- 'Peggy Sue Thomas and Jim Huden' - A Las Vegas red haired siren and her millionaire boyfriend become suspects in a murder, hundreds of miles away.
- 'Michelle Theer and John Diamond' - A lonely military wife and psychologist go searching for sex on the Internet with deadly results.
- 'Melissa Garcia and Edward Garcia' - A couple of drifters befriend a Good Samaritan with horrific results.
- 'Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer' - A mother-daughter trip to paradise is cut short by a shocking crime.
- 'Danielle Hudson and Chaz Blackshear' - In a deadly race against the clock, authorities must piece together a string of murders led by a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde.
- 'Carman Jenkins and Clarence Jenkins' - A senseless killing leads investigators on a manhunt to uncover the dark and bloody truth behind a couples' deranged ménage à trois.
- 'Tanya Bogdanovich and Michael McGregor' - A couple takes their kinky sexual fantasies to a dark and deadly place.
Season Nine (2018)[edit]
- 'Lee Ann Reidel and Ralph Salierno' - A woman and her lover get entangled in a tragic and deadly case of mistaken identity.
- 'Amber Dufoe and Richard Oakes' - A couple inflicts their own brand of vigilante justice on an enemy from the past.
- 'Linda Bury and Joshua Mebane' - A plan by teenaged lovers to run away and be together goes horribly wrong.
- 'Airika Liljegren and Ryan Martinez' - A couple's secret love affair ends in a gruesome double murder.
- 'Marie Marone and John Vasquez' - A couple's desperation for money and violent sex fantasies lead to a woman's murder.
- 'Paige Linville and Mario Moreno' - A couple's desire for new thrills take them to deadly heights - twice.
- 'Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks' - A couple kills a former Bourbon Street dancer.
- 'Vernell Jones and Kenneth Burno' - A couple kills a coworker and plots to kill some of her former lovers.
- 'Rose Vincent and Mark Bowling' - In a desperate attempt to begin a new life together, two lovers vow to take out the one person who stands between them, true love, and a million-dollar life insurance payout.
- 'Alesia Warrior and Darrell Rodgers' - A couple's scheme for money and desire doesn't turn out exactly as they had planned.
Season Ten (2018-19)[edit]
- 'Kelly Ryan and Craig Titus' - A bodybuilding husband and wife find themselves the targets of a murder investigation when a burnt body is found in the desert.
- 'Mirinda Boob and Ron Heichel' - A wife and mother seeks attention outside her marriage and triggers a deadly chain of events.
- 'Kelly Sifuentez and Christian Olsen' - A taboo romance between a mother and her daughter's ex-boyfriend becomes the focus of police when two dead bodies are discovered.
- 'Keri Murphy and Rebecca Keller' - Two teenage lovers fall under suspicion after someone close to them meets a deadly end.
- 'Tammy Holman & Charlie Miller' - A lonely man longing for affection finds the attention he needs in an unlikely person, but his desire has lethal ramifications.
- 'Sam and Collette Collins' - A wife's betrayal leaves her jealous husband plotting revenge, and the consequences are deadly.
- 'Linda Garcia and Jose Carlos Cruz' - Two teen runaways become ensnared in a homicide investigation when someone who disapproved of their relationship is discovered murdered.
- 'Sabrina Limon and Jonathan Hearn' - A deeply religious woman and her bible-study partner become the primary suspects in an execution-style murder.
- 'Allen and Patricia Prue' - A man and his wife kidnap and murder a Vermont woman.
- 'Tessie McFarland and Joshua Maxwell' - Two desperate, young lovers lead investigators on a cross-country manhunt full of murder and mayhem. Now hear directly from one of the suspects in an exclusive interview.
Season Eleven (2019)[edit]
- 'David Paulson and Meaghan Rice' - A seventeen-year-old Arizona girl pits two of her boyfriends against each other with deadly results.
- 'Erika and BJ Sifrit' - A young couple murders another in their Ocean City condominium.
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