{"id":70476,"date":"2017-06-22T20:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T03:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/testosterone-hormone-linked-to-higher-iq"},"modified":"2017-06-22T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T03:42:36","slug":"testosterone-hormone-linked-to-higher-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/testosterone-hormone-linked-to-higher-iq","title":{"rendered":"Testosterone Hormone Linked to Higher IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/testosterone-hormone-linked-to-higher-iq.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Alberta researcher Marty Mrazik, Ph.D., says being bright may be due to an excess level of a natural hormone.<\/p>\n<p>Mrazik, and a colleague have published a paper in <em>Roeper Review <\/em>linking giftedness (having an IQ score of 130 or higher) to prenatal exposure of higher levels of testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>Mrazik hypothesizes that, in the same way that physical and cognitive deficiencies may develop in utero, so too could similar exposure to this naturally occurring chemical result in giftedness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/news\/2011\/03\/14\/testosterone-hormone-linked-to-higher-iq\/24379.html\">https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/news\/2011\/03\/14\/testosterone-hormon...24379.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Alberta researcher Marty Mrazik, Ph.D., says being bright may be due to an excess level of a natural hormone. Mrazik, and a colleague have published a paper in Roeper Review linking giftedness (having an IQ score of 130 or higher) to prenatal exposure of higher levels of testosterone. Mrazik hypothesizes that, in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70476","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}