{"id":166530,"date":"2023-06-27T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-a-gene-mutation-causes-higher-intelligence"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:25:53","slug":"how-a-gene-mutation-causes-higher-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/how-a-gene-mutation-causes-higher-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"How a Gene Mutation Causes Higher Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-gene-mutation-causes-higher-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022 \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A rare genetic mutation that causes blindness also appears to be associated with above-average intelligence, a new study reports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>University of Leipzig<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synapses are the contact points in the brain via which nerve cells \u2018talk\u2019 to each other. Disturbances in this communication lead to diseases of the nervous system, since altered synaptic proteins, for example, can impair this complex molecular mechanism. This can result in mild symptoms, but also very severe disabilities in those affected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The interest of the two neurobiologists Professor Tobias Langenhan and Professor Manfred Heckmann, from Leipzig and W\u00fcrzburg respectively, was aroused when they read in a scientific publication about a mutation that damages a synaptic protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 \ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01 Summary: A rare genetic mutation that causes blindness also appears to be associated with above-average intelligence, a new study reports. Source: University of Leipzig Synapses are the contact points in the brain via which nerve cells \u2018talk\u2019 to each other. Disturbances in this communication lead to diseases of the nervous system, since [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}