How to boost your IQ? By speeding up brain networks

June 18th, 2009 by June von Bonin

Remember how new research shows that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain’s axons (see Is Intelligence Inheritable?)? Interestingly, a team of Dutch scientist did not find a correlation between the total number of connection in a person’s brain network and their IQ, but that the most efficiently wired brains tend to belong to the most intelligent people.

Looks like intelligence might be inheritable after all..What do you think?

(via newscientist.com)

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