We May Be Brighter Than We Appear. 😊

[jimcaster]

I don't take much comfort from this, but maybe it's a PD consolation prize. According to a recent study reviewed by Simon from Science of Parkinsons, we PwP may be brighter than most people.

scienceofparkinsons.com/202...

[MarionP]

Being brighter than most is still not saying much.

[ssrs in reply to MarionP]

True especially now 😂

[Jennyjenny2]

That’s why I have come to this forum, with all you bright sparks (no sarcasm intended!) I don’t need a study to tell me...thank you to all!

[reedboat2]

Great post, thank you

[Rhyothemis]

A good example of antagonistic pleitropy.

I expect mutations in ion channels act similarly.

[jimcaster in reply to Rhyothemis]

I wasn't smart enough to know about antagonistic pleitropy without googling it. 😁

[Rhyothemis in reply to jimcaster]

I wasn't smart enough to study a more practical subject than evolutionary biology at university.

[Enidah in reply to Rhyothemis]

Well, now you're just showing off.

[kaypeeoh]

I graduated in the top 5%. But this was a small college in north Louisiana. I never thought of myself as smart, rather that most others in the college were just effing lazy. I wonder if studying til 3AM seven nights a week for 9 years affected brain function. Somewhere I read studies showing those who used their brains, specifically Zen meditators, were found to have physically larger brains.

[Kia17]

How are you doing Jim?

[jimcaster in reply to Kia17]

I'm doing quite well, Kia. Thanks for asking. I'll send you a direct message.

[PalmSprings]

I worked my ass off to get my BSC in Mathematics! Oh, if I knew then what I know now, I would have partied a bit more back in those days!

[LAJ12345]

I wonder if it more that people with high iq often end up doing more sedentary jobs. The list of jobs that have lower Parkinson’s are manual labour mainly. We all know exercise is good and sitting for ages is bad.

[jimcaster in reply to LAJ12345]

Good point. As with studies showing people who smoke have a lower incidence of PD, it may just be that smokers have less sedentary jobs. Still, I prefer to believe in the "PwP have higher IQ" theory. Ha!

[LAJ12345 in reply to jimcaster]

Well I’m sure they do but I’m not sure the Pd is linked to the ID or the sitting all day at a desk!

[rhyspeace12]

My PwP husband was very bright. He took advanced math classes just to raise his grades in college, they were so easy. He was also very ambitious and did well for himself.