Believe it?

http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant_syndrome/savant_profiles/derek_amato

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Quick, everyone dive into the pool head first!

I once saw a documentary about that. Apparently, if you hit your head in a part of the brain that is "in charge" os something, let's say, artistic, you can develop this kind of geniality.
In the documentary I saw, there was this guy that was hit by a baseball in the head and since he was some kind of painting genious.
Also, this guy Daniel Tammet, had a epilectic seizure when he was young and he bacame a math genious. He wrote a book about it and all.
Very cool.

Cool, but certainly don't try this at home, because your mileage may vary.

Good one!That's funny.

How long before modern medicine figures out how to simulate the results of this trauma?

Sign me up for that surgery.

There is a real life case of a doctor with no interest in piano who became a pianist after being struck by lightning: http://alternativeapproaches.com/pnuke1/Article3701.html

He was featured in a PBS program Nova on music and the mind - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/musicminds/about.html.

Also, http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthrea...ith%20pian.html