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Today I'm joined with a fourth year medical student doing a rotation with me, Nelson

Horsley, and we have been looking at IQ for a couple months and thinking about the clinical

significance of IQ, why it's measured in different populations, what are some of the things

that can lower IQ is IQ genetic or environmental, and we're going to be doing a deep dive into

it.

I think it's going to be really valuable, especially in a culture that sometimes says like

oh, you know, mental health can be measured, right, or like there's no biological markers

of mental health issues, right?

And what we'll find is that over and over again untreated mental health issues cause worse

cognitive functioning, and you know, getting effective treatment can actually improve cognitive

functioning back to baseline or optimize it.

So Nelson, welcome to the podcast, glad to be here.

Yeah, and just for you guys who may want to look at some of these citations and studies,

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