Journal
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 650-657Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa249
Keywords
BOrge Priens PrOve (BPP); cell numbers; human brain; intelligence quotient; stereology
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- Bispebjerg Research grant
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An anatomical analysis of 50 male brains revealed that IQ does not correlate with the number of brain cells in the human neocortex and has only a weak correlation with brain weight. Other parameters related to intelligence, such as cerebral glial cells and volumes of key brain areas, also showed near-zero nonsignificant correlations with IQ.
Our access to a unique material of postmortem brains obtained from decades of data collection enabled a stereological analysis of the neuron numbers and correlation of results with individual premorbid intelligence quotient (IQ) data. In our sample of 50 brains from men, we find that IQ does not correlate with the number of brain cells in the human neocortex and was only weakly correlated to brain weight. Our stereological examination extended to measures of several other parameters that might be of relevance to intelligence, including numbers of cerebral glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia) and the volume of key areas in the gray and white matter and of the cerebral ventricles, also showing near-zero nonsignificant correlations to IQ.
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