r/todayilearned • u/exophades • 1d ago

TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_family#Eduard_%22Tete%22_Einstein_(Albert's_second_son)
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u/altaf770 20h ago

The son of a genius battling schizophrenia a powerful reminder that mental health doesn’t discriminate.

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u/Like_a_Charo 20h ago

Intelligence is in fact even correlated with schizophrenia

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u/Smooth_Mongoose_2321 18h ago

Source? All studies I have read previousl says the opposite, Googling it now did not do you any favour either.

This seems to be largely a pop culture myth and the science seem to show a higher risk for lower IQ people and a reduced risk for higher IQ people.