The Times of India
`Brainy people outlive others by 15 years'
Their Brains Age More Slowly London: It seems there may some truth in the old adage about being old and wise, for a new study has revealed that brainy people are likely to live 15 years longer than others.
Researchers at Calabria University in Italy have foundthat longevity is because the brains of intell igent people age more slowly - thanks to the very gene SSADH which makes them clever actually.
According to them, those with the less "smart" variant of the gene, are unlikely to live beyond 85 but those blessed with a "good" version of the same gene could expect to live.
The Italian team came to the conclusion after analysing a research involving 500 elderly
They asked 115 people within the sample, who fell into the 65 to 85 age group, to take cog
Those with the less intelligent variant of the gene performed significantly worse confirming the earlier patterii.
The researchers also noticed that few of those with the "bad" version lived beyond 85 while those with the "good" form were likely to live to 100. However, lead researcher Giuseppe Passarino said that 'Atheism finked to it ie less likely to believe in God because they have questioning minds, a new study has revealed. Researchers, led by has found a link between intelligence and atheism – in fact, according to them, university academics are less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else. "Several population have shown that believe in God," the Daily Telegraph quoted Lynn as saying. ' mean having a low 1Q. variant," said Passarino.
' ' significant". vri t people with higher intelligence quotients are Richard Lynn of Ulster University,
Gallup poll studies of the general those with higher IQs tend not to having two copies of the "bad" form did not autonu tically "There's no doubt lifestyle such as reading, having challenging work and enriching your cultural life is far more important than having the bad Robert Plomin of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London, who first identified the cognitive effects of SSADH gene nearly four years ago: The findings are "significant"
