{"id":217900,"date":"2025-07-15T02:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/is-intelligence-genetic-scientists-discover-heritable-brain-state-that-powers-cognitive-flexibility"},"modified":"2025-07-15T02:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:16:03","slug":"is-intelligence-genetic-scientists-discover-heritable-brain-state-that-powers-cognitive-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/is-intelligence-genetic-scientists-discover-heritable-brain-state-that-powers-cognitive-flexibility","title":{"rendered":"Is Intelligence Genetic? Scientists Discover Heritable Brain State That Powers Cognitive Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-intelligence-genetic-scientists-discover-heritable-brain-state-that-powers-cognitive-flexibility2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain dynamics and cognition share genetic roots. Criticality may guide future brain health research. A recent study published on June 24 in PNAS presents strong evidence that brain criticality\u2014the delicate balance between neural excitation and inhibition\u2014is heavily influenced by genetic factors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain dynamics and cognition share genetic roots. Criticality may guide future brain health research. A recent study published on June 24 in PNAS presents strong evidence that brain criticality\u2014the delicate balance between neural excitation and inhibition\u2014is heavily influenced by genetic factors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217900","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}