PREVIEW: Ask Me Anything with Dr. Jeremy Chapman

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We’re sharing a special preview of an exclusive Backstage Pass AMA with Dr. Jeremy Chapman, child and adolescent psychiatrist and Medical Director of the SSM Health Treffert Center. In this conversation, he dives into your most thought-provoking questions — from how savants might collaborate with leading scientists, to what actually happens in the brain when “the veil” lifts and new forms of perception appear.

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0:00.0	It's Kai, and as we move into the holidays, I've been thinking a lot about the ways we stay connected.
0:04.7	So this December, we want to offer something that feels truly special.
0:08.2	You can give the gift of telepathy all month long.
0:10.6	Our annual backstage pass subscription is 25% off, and for the first time, you can gift an annual
0:15.8	membership to someone you care about.
0:17.3	The holiday sale runs from December 1st through December 31st.
0:22.2	To subscribe, visit the telepathy tapes.supercast.com. The link is also in our show notes. We hope this brings
0:27.2	a little bit more joy and connection into your holidays. Hello, backstage past listeners.
0:31.5	Thank you so much for all the amazing feedback we've received from episode four this season,
0:36.0	savants, when brilliance drops in.
0:38.2	We're thrilled to be joined today by Dr. Jeremy Chapman, director from the SSM Health
0:42.7	Treffert Center, who will be answering the questions you submitted that were inspired by the
0:46.4	episode. Your questions were so thoughtful and engaging that Jeremy had a great time
0:50.3	digging in. And now here's Jeremy. Thank you so much everybody for having me. My name is
0:54.7	Dr. Jeremy Chapman, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, medical director at the Treffert Center.
1:00.0	It was a joy to be on the show and to get to share some of the work that we do and some of
1:04.7	my thoughts and my team's thoughts. And I really appreciate the questions that people sent us
1:09.8	in. So let's dive right in and do our best to answer these things.
1:14.9	Here's question number one.
1:16.1	Dr. Chapman, has the Treford Center explored ways to connect the brilliant savants with PhDs or researchers in the fields that they naturally excel in order to help them translate their insights into formal
1:27.9	scientific language and perhaps make some additional breakthroughs that way. For example,
1:33.2	linking Jason Padgett with MIT's Dr. Max Tegmar to co-investigate their shared
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