High IQ and health: Are more Intelligent people more prone to illnesses?
Genetic Literacy Project
[We think some enhanced sensitivity to the environment is perceived as "intelligence" & it's that enhanced sensitivity that may contribute to damage to the immune system and ultimately illness to the body and/or brain]
Genetic Literacy Project
[We think some enhanced sensitivity to the environment is perceived as "intelligence" & it's that enhanced sensitivity that may contribute to damage to the immune system and ultimately illness to the body and/or brain]
high iq & psycho-neuro-immunology
High IQ & we would say "giftedness" across the board are just some of the many things that can negatively impact the Central Nervous SyStem & the immune system
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The Journal Intelligence (2017) Hyper Brain, Hyper Body: The Trouble With High IQ [Orchid: We think this probably applies to most people with different types of "giftedness" --probably not just High IQ -- because "overexcitabilities" are seen across the "giftedness" spectrum] "A new study in the journal Intelligence reports that highly intelligent people have a significantly increased risk of suffering from a variety of psychological and physiological disorders. "Lead author of the study, Ruth Karpinski, says the findings have implications both for the study of intelligence and for psychoneuroimmunology, which examines how stress responses to the environment influence communication between the brain and immune system. “Our findings are relevant because a significant portion of these individuals are suffering on a daily basis as a result of their unique emotional and physical overexcitabilities. "It is important for the scientific community to examine high IQ as being front and center within the system of mechanisms that may be at play in these dysregulations,” she says. "Karpinski and her colleagues developed a hyper brain / hyper body theory of integration. "It posits that individuals with high cognitive ability react with an overexcitable emotional and behavioral response to their environment. "Due in part to this increased awareness of their surroundings, people with a high IQ then tend to experience an overexcitable, hyperreactive central nervous system." https://neurosciencenews.com/iq-hyper-brain-body-7720/ |
Ruth Karpinski, Lead Author -- Also author of Independent Thesis: "High Cognitive Ability as a Risk Factor for Immune Dysregulation."
Pitzer College -- Claremont, California
SENG
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