Just started reading The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M. D.
Chapter two, Building Herself A Better Brain, is about Barbara Arrowsmith Young who is that rare person who makes the discovery and is the one with the defect.
Her brain was "asymmetrical". Her exceptional abilities coexisted with areas of retardation.
The chapter is about her discovery and leverage of the brain's plasticity and her dogged determination to train highly developed areas of her brain to take over for retarded areas.
The rest of her story is truly amazing so I won't spoil it for you. If you've not yet read the book it's worth the time. The first chapter about "A Woman Perpetually Falling" is equally if not more amazing.
I encourage you to read it.
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I think you would also enjoy her book which came out quite recently.
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