I think that if I could do any sort of research of autism that I wanted to do, at this point I would take a sample of classic, early infantile autism….

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius..

Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are sup….

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research..

When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to me to be islan….

When we come to research, if we want to find out the cause of autism, we're going to have to be much more specific, and that's why when it comes to r….

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function..

When you first try to learn to ride a bike, you work very carefully at keeping your balance, and trying to keep one pedal in front of the other, and ….

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions..

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgrou….

To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may have liberal ec….

The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to show up….

Originally when we talked about language disorder it was a catastrophic language disorder. It's substantial, and from a treatment standpoint it's oka….

The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do have so….

Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested in ancestry….

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant ….

We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched in our….

I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then it became "autism….

Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into r….

Parents don't particularly care whether it's early infantile autism or whatever label the clinicians have put on it. All they want is treatment, and ….

Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on people when they'….