Study: Mental Illness is the Evolutionary price being paid for intelligence

[BackInTheGame78]

Interesting...

"Two papers published in the January issue of Nature Neuroscience help answer this riddle. In a two-part study, scientists in the United Kingdom demonstrated that a genetic event 550 million years ago that led to the duplication of certain genes fostered the evolution of complex nervous systems and behaviors in humans, mice and other vertebrates. That event, however, also led to a downside for vertebrates: the development of mental illnesses."

No different than when thinking of anything else really...when you upgrade something, you pay for it somewhere, there are no free lunches so to speak in evolution or anything else in life.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/03/mental-illness

 

[Bible_Belt]

Interesting...

"Two papers published in the January issue of Nature Neuroscience help answer this riddle. In a two-part study, scientists in the United Kingdom demonstrated that a genetic event 550 million years ago that led to the duplication of certain genes fostered the evolution of complex nervous systems and behaviors in humans, mice and other vertebrates. That event, however, also led to a downside for vertebrates: the development of mental illnesses."

No different than when thinking of anything else really...when you upgrade something, you pay for it somewhere, there are no free lunches so to speak in evolution or anything else in life.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/03/mental-illness

We're also the only mammal with a propensity to choke and die on our own food. As the brain got bigger, that space had to come from somewhere, thus our narrow throats that occasionally kill us.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

We're also the only mammal with a propensity to choke and die on our own food. As the brain got bigger, that space had to come from somewhere, thus our narrow throats that occasionally kill us.

That's actually true but it's not due to brain adaptation as much as how the throat evolved for speech.

 

[Divorced w 3]

That's actually true but it's not due to brain adaptation as much as how the throat evolved for speech.

I have a 140 IQ, I also happen to be bipolar. Recent discovery. I don’t know that necessarily infers correlation but obviously Nature is the gold standard. Too lazy to read.

 

[BaronOfHair]

A few minutes on social media, or/and watching episodes of daytime talk shows from back in the day, confirm:

A sharp mind is to mental illness what being a talented singer is to fronting a death metal act... Less necessary than clothes on an Instagram chick

 

[plumber]

difference between mental illness and evolutionary adaption is mostly opinion and perspective. it will be measured by survival.

are you telling about the law of equivalent exchange ?

 

[BaronOfHair]

Topic reminds me of

4:13-4:50

Lots of folks who are just intelligent enough to start believing they're smarter than they really are are prone to angst-inducing thinking, such as:

"I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/107092-i-knew-i-was-different-i-thought-that-i-might , rather than coming out and saying what's REALLY bugging them:

"Being sociable didn't come naturally to me, and I ended up being seen as one of the weirdos no one but other weirdos wanted to associate with. That was painful back when it happened, and still is today, if I ruminate on those times"

Unfortunately, we CONTINUE to mistake angst for a mark of higher wisdom, this many years after Grunge sputtered out