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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: colarris on 04/04/2010 21:54:25

Title: Do the brains of the highly intelligent differ structurally from thicker people?
Post by: colarris on 04/04/2010 21:54:25

 
 Does the brain of a highly intelligent person look any different to one belonging to some like me with a rather low intelligence? Would it look any different if dissected and examined?

Title: Re: Do the brains of the highly intelligent differ structurally from thicker people?
Post by: Pwee on 05/04/2010 22:42:16

See the results of the examination of Albert Einstein's brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain)

Title: Re: Do the brains of the highly intelligent differ structurally from thicker people?
Post by: SammySchwartz on 06/04/2010 14:05:32

According to me all human beings brain are same but the capacity of working all brains are different.

Title: Re: Do the brains of the highly intelligent differ structurally from thicker people?
Post by: Jessica H on 06/04/2010 21:00:16

There is some interesting research on brain size and intelligence: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=neurosci&part=A1833&rendertype=box&id=A1833 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=neurosci&part=A1833&rendertype=box&id=A1833)

You would be more likely to find a size difference in a certain area of the brain than an allover size difference.  As you can see from the link from the previous post, Einstein had a average sized brain, but a region that would have helped in mathematical thinking was larger than average.