Science news articles about 'iqs'

  • Breast-feeding raises children's IQs, study says

    ... Increased breast-feeding during the first months of life appears to raise a child's verbal IQ, according to a study of nearly 14,000 children that was released Monday.
  • Andrew Anthony on the IQ test

    IQ levels rocketed in the last century, but argument still rages about how our brain power should be tested, and the roles played by genetics, social conditions, culture and even race. Keen to find ...
  • MS can affect children's IQ, thinking skills

    ... Academy of Neurology. Children who developed the disease at a younger age were more likely to have low IQ scores than children who were older when the disease started. “It’s possible that MS can ...
  • Training Can Improve IQ After All - Study

    ... working at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, suggests that at least one aspect of a person's IQ can be improved by training a certain type of memory. Most IQ tests attempt to measure two types ...
  • Low childhood IQ linked to type of dementia

    ... lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to research published in the June 25, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal ...
  • Low childhood IQ linked to vascular dementia

    ... lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to research published in the 25 June 2008 online issue of Neurology(R), the medical journal ...
  • Lower childhood IQ associated with higher risk of adult mental disorders

    ... as adults, including schizophrenia, depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Lower IQ was also associated with psychiatric disorders that were more persistent and an increased risk of having two ...
  • New method of scoring IQ tests benefits children with intellectual disabilities

    ... to Hessl, there is a lot of meaningful variability in the performance of these children on IQ tests. "We believe that this variability is important information about the relative strengths and ...
  • The tricky relation between religion and IQ

    ... than agnostics". Both readings are justified. A large-scale analysis of the religious allegiance and measured IQ of a representative sample of 3,742 American adolescents found a clear trend: the more ...
  • Children of older fathers have lower IQs

    ... scored on average three points higher in IQ tests than children whose fathers were 50 ... childhood cancers.The same study found that children's IQ was marginally higher if they were born to older mothers ...
  • Resuscitated newborns at risk for lower IQs

    ... ) -- Children who were resuscitated at birth have increased risk of low intelligence quotient (IQ) at age eight years, even if they were apparently healthy in the 28 days (neonatal period) following ...
  • People with higher IQs make wiser economic choices, U of Minnesota study finds

    ... followed them on the job. People with better cognitive skills, in particular higher IQ, were more willing to take calculated risks and to save their money and made more consistent choices. They were ...
  • Manipulating the Brain Network Could Improve IQ

    ... have found that efficient wiring between different brain regions is associated with a higher IQ. This understanding could potentially lead to the development of drugs that could improve IQ by ...
  • IQ and the Value of Nations: or, Is Your Country Dumb and Worthless?

    ... values and preferences that, offhand, seemed to indicate that the value of a nation is tied to its IQ. The article, to be published in the July issue of Journal of Biosocial Science, is a quick read ...
  • IQ and the Values of Nations: Part III

    ... a paper on the origin of individual values and preferences that suggests values are tied to IQ, and you can theoretically predict the values of a nation based on its average intelligence. read more

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