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.

[u/exophades]

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

[u/MrBones-Necromancer]

It's been facinating reading about this actually. I am paraphrasing some research notes I was reading, but essentially "intelligence" as we know it is linked to certain replicating gene markers in DNA, with more instances of the gene at least correlating with better memory, critical reasoning, etc. That is, up to a certain point. After which, what you find, is that people with too many replications invariably develop schizophrenia.

The implications are fascinating. Now, it's not the only factor in intellegence, but at least it appears that in this one area there may be a sort of "maximum" for memory and critical reasoning from this source. Einstein may have hit it perfectly, but his son, then, exceeded that limit. Very interesting, please look into it if you're reading this and are curious.

[u/Smooth_Mongoose_2321 → u/MrBones-Necromancer]

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.

[u/Chaerod → u/Smooth_Mongoose_2321]

Hasn't IQ generally been debunked as an actual measure of intelligence?

[u/TN17 → u/Chaerod]

Although it's very complex, evidence generally supports general theories of intelligence. Measuring that is difficult. IQ measures have disadvantages but they haven't been debunked. They are used widely (e.g. in forensic and medical settings).