Will a high IQ brain lose IQ after brain damage? Or does high IQ allow for more regeneration / existing neurons to work more efficiently?
>>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
>>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?
>>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.