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The study, published in Science Direct, looked at Mensa members with an IQ of over 130 and found that “those with high intelligence are at significantly greater risk … 1.
A single gene, known as DARPP-32, is suspected to cause the link between intelligence and mental illness. Specifically, those with a high intellectual capacity (hyper brain) possess overexcitabilities in various domains that may predispose them to certain psychological disorders as well as physiological conditions involving elevated sensory, and altered immune and inflammatory responses (hyper body). “If high intelligence was not a risk factor for these diseases and disorders, we would see a similar prevalence rate between the two groups,” explains Audrey Kinase Kolb, co-author.
Having A High IQ Puts You More At Risk Of Mental Illness, Study Finds. As with other disorders, ADHD can’t properly predict IQ. Indeed, anxiety may have co-evolved with intelligence — worrying may have given early humans a survival benefit in the ancient past (Coplan et al., 2012). High IQ: A risk factor for mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, ASD and immune dysregulation. The stereotype of a tortured genius may have a basis in reality after a new study found that people with higher IQs are more at risk of developing mental illness. Having a high IQ comes with many benefits, but could it also put you at a higher risk for mental illnesses? Recently, scientists discovered a quirky side effect to having a high IQ: You tend to stay up until later hours and get up later in the morning.
Not only does a high IQ come with the propensity for mood disorders, but also risky behaviors like drug and alcohol use. The research adds fuel to the debate over the connection between intelligence, creativity and mental health issues. That's right -- the more intelligent are also much more likely to be night owls. Facebook. NeuroscienceNews.com image is adapted from the Pitzer College news release. In other research, high levels of verbal intelligence have been found to be linked to relatively high levels of worry and severity of rumination (Penney, Miedema, & Mazmanian, 2015). Some seem to agree with the idea that intelligence and depression – especially IQ and depression – are related. This structure, formed mostly by myelinated axons , is related to the transmission of information.
One large study led by Ruth Karpinski of Pitzer College surveyed more than 3700 members of Mensa, a society whose members must have an IQ in the top two percent, which is typically about 132 or higher. Showing that a disorder is more common in a sample of people with high IQs than in the general population doesn’t prove that high intelligence is the cause of the disorder… 49989 ... risk for the examined psychological disorders and ... of people with high levels of intelligence. Furthermore, “being smart” doesn’t always depend on a high IQ.
Anxiety and intelligence In the study, 26 patients with anxiety disorder and 18 healthy people completed an IQ test, along with a questionnaire to assess their level of worry .
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Disorders of mood could be the price some people pay for high intelligence, recent research finds. SHARES. We’ve been musing on the idea of depression and high intelligence for much longer than the existence of the scientific method, and even since its inception we’ve been testing the theory and coming up with mixed results.
A study found that people with schizophrenia were more likely to have the version of DARPP-32 that boosted performance on tasks involving thinking and filtering of information [source: National Institute of Mental Health ]. The Burden of High Intelligence. It’s just a pity that it’s left intelligent people with higher levels of anxiety disorders… As far back as Spielberger ( 1958 ) noted a negative correlation between intelligence and anxiety in healthy subjects. People of high intelligence are more prone to anxiety than those of moderate intelligence.