{"id":18935,"date":"2009-06-11T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2009\/06\/enhancing-brains-and-bones.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:29:09","slug":"enhancing-brains-and-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2009\/06\/enhancing-brains-and-bones.html","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Brains and Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Scientist covers progress in understanding how to speed up the brain.<\/a><\/p>

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Van den Heuvel’s team to build connectivity networks for each volunteer, and to measure the efficiency of each network. “It more or less reflects how many steps a [brain] region has to take to send information from one region to another,” he says.<\/p>\n

This measure proved a decent predictor of each person’s IQ, explaining about 30 per cent of the differences between subjects, van den Heuvel says.<\/p>\n

Intriguingly, the researchers found no link between the total number of connections in a subject’s brain network and their IQ. “We show that more intelligent people don’t have more connections, but they have more efficiently placed connections,” he says.”<\/p>\n

If it’s genetic, genes work through biology and, once we understand the biology, we have lots of ways to manipulate biology,” says Richard Haier, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine. “In my mind, one of the important directions of this kind of research should lead to ways to improve intelligence on a neurochemical basis.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

picking and choosing genetic copying of extreme humans – superhard bones<\/p>\n