In 1977 a new director, Stansfield Turner, was asked by the Office of Management and Budget to reduce intelligence spending.
But research is uncovering new impacts on health, including degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, mental illness and reduced intelligence.
Creativity is enhanced by personal tragedies, such as the premature death of a parent -- events that are disruptive of education and can actually reduce intelligence.
INTERPRETATION: Early prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu may have interfered with fetal cerebral development and caused reduced intelligence in adulthood.
According to results from a 2010 study, higher levels of exposure to manganese in drinking water are associated with increased intellectual impairment and reduced intelligence quotients in school-age children.
Reduced intelligence of varying degrees constitutes a major symptom of FXS, varying from learning difficulties to severe cognitive impairment [ 4].
Lead exposure among children is associated with developmental problems including impaired cognitive function, reduced intelligence, impaired hearing, and reduced stature; no toxicologically safe blood lead level (BLL) has been identified (Canfield et al. 2003; Jusko et al. 2008).
However, these findings were not universally compatible with other investigations; for example, Jacobson and Jacobson (1996) found reduced intelligence among children born to mothers who were highly exposed to PCBs, but Gray and co-workers (2005) found intelligence to be unrelated to prenatal PCB exposure.
It is important for us to realize what too much multitasking can do to our brains, like reducing our intelligence, dropping our IQ, and causing us to make more mistakes.
In the current sample, despite selecting dyslexics on the basis of having nonverbal intelligence in the normal range, the DD group showed significantly reduced nonverbal intelligence scores compared with age matched controls (p <.001).
