>>8158061
It completely depends on the damage. You have to be way more specific.

Hi IQ guy here (top 1% of respondents in 3 occupational tests) with brain damage (to cerebellum following two separate strokes induced by a vertebral arterial dissection)

Cognitive functions for the most part unaffected - abstract reasoning still very good and verball (written) expression remains strong. memory (short and long term) patchy to say the best though. I occasionally lose my train of thought when talking. have difficulties managing multiple thought stream simulataneously (particularly in high pressure situations). If tired feel vague and wooly headed.

in summary - most of the time not much affected, but in some ways diminished when under stress or in demanding situations

>>8158061

all i know is that high education means a delay in alzheimer's degeneration because people are better at working around symptoms. but when those do go downhill, the rate of decline is steeper.

>>8159279

cerebellum is more coordination than cognitive

>>8159322
>high education means a delay in alzheimer
Not exactly, from what I understand, as long as you keep engaging yourself in any productive activity (problem solving of any kind, teaching, etc), there'll be a delay.

>tfw NEET
>tfw killing my brain more and more each year

>>8159254
Pretty much.

>>8159324
We actually don't "know".

We need more brain research funds, and we can stop circlejerking about IQ pseudoscience and all that bullshit.

>>8158061
There is something called 'Neuroplasticity' and it has to do with brain regeneretive functions. Right up your alley.

>>8159279

can you really be sure this isn't all in your head?

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>>8159381

Yes. After I left the hospital my insurance company sent me to a rehabilitation therapist where they tested my cognitive functioning. I did well on the logic puzzles and pattern recognition things but when they asked me what year it was I said it was 2006 (it was 2012). Even now I have problems with the year.

having brain damage is like having a empty spot in your brain. Most of the time things function smoothly, but every once in a while a though process hits the dead zone and stops dead in its tracks. I feel that no amount if neural plasticity will change that (even though I'm quite young and use my brain a lot)

Your brain repairs itself

>IQ

I don't know EXACTLY how dim NFL players are yet I would not say they have reduced largely and that's about the maximum you can let happen.

>>8159585
Smoke DMT.