Lachlan Connor: I became a musical prodigy after a head injury
MUSIC - A high school student from Denvers believes that a series of head injuries may have contributed to his astonishing musical talent.
According to CBS Denver, Lachlan Connors was not particularly gifted in music as a child. But a few years ago, he suffered several head injuries that sent him to the hospital for weeks, and caused epileptic seizures. Connors is now able to play "roughly 10 to 13 instruments" according to CBS.
Connors' doctor also believes that the head trauma may have contributed to his new talents.
"It's just a theory: it would be about a talent which remained latent in his brain and which was recovered somehow after the accident" explains Dr. Spyridon Papadopoulos to CBS. " It is clear that something happened in his brain, that his brain had to recover from the accident and then a change occurred, and this change revealed in him a capacity that was ignored by all."
Connors is not the first to experience such upheaval. In June 2012, a man called Derek Amato, also from Denvers, told Today magazine he believed he had become gifted in music after suffering a severe head injury.
While Amato was not particularly a musician before his accident, he is now a professional piano player.
At the time, Dr Andrew Reeves of Mayo Clinic reported that Amato had "acquired Scientist Syndrome" which is "quite rare". According to The Atlantic, a person with Savant Syndrome is "someone who has extraordinary talent but was not born with it and has not learned that talent elsewhere afterwards."
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