The Super Scholar organization has developed a ranking of the ten smartest people alive in the world. In it appears Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist, with an IQ of 160, 14 awards and 70 years of age, who according to the authors of the list, with his 7 books "has made us mere mortals understand the universe."
In the last decade, scientists have discovered that behavior, mood and even memory can be altered both by the action of external microbes and by components of our own immune system. A clear example is the effects caused by being in contact with Mycobacterium vaccae, a bacterium that lives in the soil and that we inhale when we take a walk in the field, play for a while in the park or we can plant the garden.
Do you have to read a report, prepare a class work or analyze the news published today? Having a cup of coffee improves your ability to process information, according to a study by Holly Taylor and her colleagues at Tufts University (USA).
Italian researchers have discovered that lithium, a drug commonly used to treat mood disorders and bipolar disorder, is able to stimulate the formation of new neurons or neurogenesis in the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with learning and learning. memory. Lithium also significantly improved the performance of Down syndrome mice on contextual learning, spatial memory, and object distinction tasks.
Educational books and toys not only make a child smarter, but also influence brain growth, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) have revealed at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The results of their work indicate that there is an extremely sensitive period in childhood during which brain development is strongly influenced by environmental factors.
Living in the middle of the African bush, gray parrots are able to reason logically in a similar way to great apes and three-year-old human children, according to an Austrian and German study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
About 10 percent of the differences in intelligence between people and others is due to the connections between neurons in the lateral prefrontal cortex and the rest of the brain, according to research published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers have analyzed the intelligence of various individuals by scanning their brains while carrying out various activities.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
