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Can IQ/metrics of intelligence rebound after taking a hit?

Anonymous Wed 10 Feb 18:02:58 2021 No.12690399 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12690555 >>12691073 >>12691085 >>12691928 >>12694181

How much of an ability does the brain have to recover from detriments to intelligence overall? E.g, depression, drug use, lack of sleep? Does IQ revert to baseline if an individual fixes these problems?

Is neurogenesis a meme?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Feb 2021 18:50:17 No.12690555 Report

Quoted By: >>12690657

>>12690399
I tested 125 after a decade of depression and drug abuse so I'd say yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Feb 2021 19:22:37 No.12690657 Report

Quoted By: >>12692257

>>12690555
did you experience an acclimation period? As in you worked your way back to physical/mental health it or did you just stop the depression/drug abuse and went about living your life?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Feb 2021 21:16:29 No.12691073 Report

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>>12690399
Bump for interest.
Also, I'd appreciate some actual research.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Feb 2021 21:19:31 No.12691085 Report

Quoted By: >>12691915

>>12690399
Fucking around on google leads me to believe it highly depends on the drug you were doing, and to which extent, but generally for "hard" drugs, you'll never fully recover.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2021 01:26:30 No.12691915 Report

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>>12691085
I was more wondering about decline in general. I went through some periods of high stress/little sleep/depression and I'm curious to what extent concentration and memory can regenerate. I've only ever done psychedelics and I was on antidepressants. I don't know fuck all about the biology of the brain but I think that I, as well as anyone who has an knowledge of the body, knows that you aren't recovering from 10 years of cocaine or heroin

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2021 01:28:31 No.12691928 Report

Quoted By: >>12694049

>>12690399
My friend got a stroke and lost her ability to conceptualize numbers. Like complete inability to know 1+1. Then in a couple years she could do calculus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2021 03:37:48 No.12692257 Report

Quoted By: >>12692459

>>12690657
>did you experience an acclimation period?
yes, it took a few years of therapy and developing healthy habits. fwiw, i didn't do meth. mostly weed, psychedelics and alcohol

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2021 04:50:00 No.12692459 Report

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>>12692257
Thanks for the reply anon, gives me some hope

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2021 16:26:50 No.12694049 Report

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>>12691928
>unable to know 1+1
Maybe because she has an impaired ability for speech?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Feb 2021 16:54:50 No.12694181 Report

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>>12690399
Yeah I affirmly believe that you can change your wiring if you try hard enough over long periods.
In my experience this is also risky.
I have completely changed aspects of my personality over a few years, but I have also made myself less resistant to stress.

I agree you stop developing your brain at some point, but if you managed to make enough connections during your development, it is possible to "reroute" those pathways to learn something new post development.
I can literally feel when I am learning something difficult for the first time, my brain struggling. I go to sleep and then wake up and then struggle less.

I'm talking out of my ass and have no way to confirm this.
I think in the future we will look back at thinking the brain was so static for intelligence as a great injustice.

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