r/videos • u/Jtaimelafolie • May 30 '17

This guy's presentation on ADHD is excellent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
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u/sixblackgeese May 30 '17

High IQ is very strongly correlated with many measures of success in life. It's definitely not only relevant to taking tests.

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u/NarcissisticCat May 30 '17

What are you basing this on? It makes some sense, especially openness.

I do know creativity isn't correlated with schizophrenia but is with bipolar disorder(hypomania) and schizotypal personality disorder.

This could also partially explain the over-representation of people with bipolar disorder(the hypomanic kind) in certain positions like writers(books, movies etc.) and art!

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u/Snickersthecat May 31 '17 edited May 31 '17

I couldn't find the paper I was specifically looking for, but it's easy to find papers demonstrating that attention and intelligence work apart from one other at bare minimum. If I recall there are over a dozen genes that control for DA receptor polymorphisms behind ADHD, so intuitively one would think that it's possible to leave certain aspects of working memory untouched by the disorder. When you can't filter out information in the surrounding environment, if you have ADHD you're trying to integrate that into your working memory all of the time, this probably leads to more widespread connectivity, entropy, and strong semantic connections. There's also a fair amount of comorbidity with disorders like bipolar, so it would be hard to tease out correlation from causation.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

Mmm I have both, but I'm not terribly creative (well unless it is some weird plan, mentally creative, not physically) and I'm a happy conservative, who is happy to talk to everyone from every political spectrum.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

Yes, but as was mentioned in this video, the professor states that ADHD patients have all the knowledge, but aren't able to use it practically.

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u/iknowdanjones May 30 '17

I am definitely not disparaging the IQ test, I'm just saying that coupled with my ADHD, it didn't really help me out in school as far as learning goes.

I think of it as the parenting paradigm I recently read about where if you tell your child "you did really well on your test because you are smarter than most" can cause a child not to study because they think they are already ahead of the curve. If you tell your child "you did really well on your test because you really studied and tried hard", then they will see the correlation behind hard work and achievement. I was definitely the first of the two and never tried hard at anything until after college.