The magazine’s editors asked three scholars to discuss how their fields helped students develop general intellectual skills and how those skills might be measured. The magazine’s editors asked three ...

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Psychotic disorders comes with a progressive decline in IQ. If current drug treatments are successful in containing psychotic symptoms, nothing can be done to prevent the deterioration of intellectual ...

Parents, often talk of child development as it pertains to intellectual growth. There are certain things parents can do to help give children the best possible opportunities for increased IQ and to ...

The ability to imitate gestures is key to learning from others and it helps foster social interactions. Children with autism, however, tend to imitate less often and less accurately than peers without ...

In my last post I summarized research indicating that early academic training produces long-term harm. Now, in this post, I will delve a bit into the question of how that might happen. It's useful ...

Words are powerful things. When deployed clearly and effectively, they can propel new ideas forward and motivate social change. Unfortunately, they also can bring more confusion than clarity and lead ...

A UNIGE team has found that a class of drugs can protect the development of intellectual abilities in people at risk of psychosis, if prescribed before adolescence One person in 2000 suffers from a ...