Study Reveals that Worry and Anxiety Linked To High IQ (Video)
by N.Morgan Excessive worry and anxiety may not be such a bad thing after all — a recent study suggests that such anxiety may have evolved in people along with intelligence. The results indicate that among people diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, high IQ scores were associated with high levels of worry. According to Dr. Adam Perkins, an expert in Neurobiology of Personality at King’s College in London: “It occurred to me that if you happen to have a preponderance of negatively hued self-generated thoughts, due to high levels of spontaneous activity in the parts of the medial prefrontal cortex that govern conscious perception of threat and you also have a tendency to switch to panic sooner than average people, due to possessing especially high reactivity in the basolateral nuclei of the amygdala, then that means you can experience intense negative emotions even when there’s no threat present. This could mean that for specific neural reasons, high sco...