ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
What genome-wide association studies reveal about the association between intelligence and physical health, illness, and mortality.
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- The relationship between chronotype and intelligence: the importance of work timing.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- The relationship between chronotype and intelligence: the importance of work timing.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
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- Mothers of small-bodied children and fathers of vigorous sons live longer.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Genetic basis of job attainment characteristics and the genetic sharing with other SES indices and well-being.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Genetics, leadership position, and well-being: An investigation with a large-scale GWAS.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Predictors of Healthcare Utilization Among Older Adults with Moderate to Severe Cognitive Limitations in Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) Wave 1.Current Alzheimer research · 2022Article
- The sexual selection of creativity: A nomological approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Review
- Identifying nootropic drug targets via large-scale cognitive GWAS and transcriptomics.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Individual Differences in Attention and Intelligence: A United Cognitive/Psychometric Approach.Journal of Intelligence · 2021Article
- Intelligence, health and death.Nature human behaviour · 2021Review
- Subjective Socioeconomic Status, Cognitive Abilities, and Personal Control: Associations With Health Behaviours.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The long arm of childhood intelligence on terminal decline: Evidence from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.Psychology and aging · 2020Article
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Abstract
The associations between higher intelligence test scores from early life and later good health, fewer illnesses, and longer life are recent discoveries. Researchers are mapping the extent of these associations and trying to understanding them. Part of the intelligence-health association has genetic origins. Recent advances in molecular genetic technology and statistical analyses have revealed that: intelligence and many health outcomes are highly polygenic; and that modest but widespread genetic correlations exist between intelligence and health, illness and mortality. Causal accounts of intelligence-health associations are still poorly understood. The contribution of education and socio-economic status - both of which are partly genetic in origin - to the intelligence-health associations are being explored.
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