How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?
Dual n-Back FAQ
Nootropics
Iodine and Adult IQ meta-analysis
Dual n-Back Meta-Analysis
replication#pygmalion-effect
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The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
https://web.archive.org/web/20010202171200/http://sysopmind.com/algernon.html
The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance
https://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/B00AR2BCLW/
The Power and the Gory
Profound Reversible Seasonal Changes of Individual Skull Size in a Mammal
Exceptional Longevity Is Associated With Decreased Reproduction
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/5314/1/Griffiths_%26_Wilkins.doc
THE EVOLVED SELF-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Physics of Wound Healing I: Energy Considerations
https://nickbostrom.com/papers/converging.pdf
Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever
Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice
Extinction of Fear-Potentiated Startle—Blockade by Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist into the Amygdala
Genetic Enhancement of Inflammatory Pain by Forebrain NR2B Overexpression
Why Aren’t We Smarter Already: Evolutionary Trade-Offs and Cognitive Enhancements
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trying-to-forget/
spaced-repetition#when-to-review
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Brain Changes Seen in Cabbies Who Take 'The Knowledge'
Acquiring "the Knowledge" of London’s layout drives structural brain changes
More Is Not Always Better: The Benefits of Cognitive Limits
The Nature of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity: Active Maintenance in Primary Memory and Controlled Search from Secondary Memory
Understanding the Odd Science of Aging
1989-phelan.pdf
1992-berry.pdf
1998-ricklefs.pdf
Explaining and Inducing Savant Skills: Privileged Access to Lower Level, Less-Processed Information
melatonin#vitamins
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The Replication Crisis: Flaws in Mainstream Science
https://web.archive.org/web/20230101001643/https://www.overcomingbias.com/tag/medicine
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/rand_health_inshtml
Disagreement Case Study: Hanson and Cutler
Cut Medicine in Half
September 2007: Is More Medicine Better?
https://www.amazon.com/Overtreated-Medicine-Making-Sicker-Poorer/dp/1582345791/
Hospice Beats Hospital
Eternal Medicine
Beware Transfusions
Beware High Standards
Free Docs Not Help Poor Kids
Avoid Vena Cava Filters
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/question-medical-findingshtml
Medical Ideology
Meds To Cut
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/our-nutrition-ignorancehtml
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/wasted-cancer-hopehtml
Africa HIV: Perverts or Bad Med?
Megan on Med
https://www.amazon.com/Facts-Dangerous-Half-Truths-Total-Nonsense/dp/1591398622
Hard Facts: Med
In Favor Of Fever
Death Panels Add Life
How Med Harms
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/the-bias-to-cuthtml
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/the-oregon-health-insurance-experimenthtml
Skip Cancer Screens - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias
Beware Cancer Med
Forget Salt
All In Their Heads
Don’t Torture Mom & Dad - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias
Dog versus Cat Medicine
Farm vs Pet Medicine
1/6 of US Deaths From Hospital Errors
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Performance Curve Database
https://www.amazon.com/Rationality-Reflective-Mind-Keith-Stanovich/dp/0195341147/
The Evolutionary Genetics of Personality
My Genome, My Self
Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Selection-Biological-Evolution-Philosophy/dp/0521644054/
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Genes-Alone-Transformed-Evolution/dp/0226712125/
https://nickbostrom.com/evolution.pdf
Taking a Fence Down
An Alien God
Evolving to Extinction
The Tragedy of Group Selectionism
Nicotine
https://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1544/1195.full
https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=F1548.1&viewtype=text
Evolutions Are Stupid (But Work Anyway)
Genetic enhancement of cognition in a kindred with cone-rod dystrophy due to RIMS1 mutation
Study of 250 Children With Idiopathic Mental Retardation Reveals 9 Cryptic and Diverse Subtelomeric Chromosome Anomalies
Subtle Chromosomal Rearrangements in Children With Unexplained Mental Retardation
Range of Genetic Mutations Associated With Severe Non-Syndromic Sporadic Intellectual Disability: an Exome Sequencing Study
2014-fitzgerald.pdf
Genome Sequencing Identifies Major Causes of Severe Intellectual Disability
A High Density of X-Linked Genes for General Cognitive Ability: A Runaway Process Shaping Human Evolution?
The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder
Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism
Whole-genome sequencing of quartet families with autism spectrum disorder
‘Adaptation-Executers, Not Fitness-Maximizers’, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The likelihood of cognitive enhancement
http://strdu.com/human_longevity_vs_mammals.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20210306153623/https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/longevity.htm
https://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69610/title/Adaptive_no_more
Melatonin
The Social and Scientific Temporal Correlates of Genotypic Intelligence and the Flynn Effect
The Flynn Effect Puzzle: A 30-Year Examination from the Right Tail of the Ability Distribution Provides Some Missing Pieces
The Effect of Iron Deficiency Anemia on Intelligence Quotient (IQ) in under 17 Years Old Students
A Review of Studies on the Effect of Iron Deficiency on Cognitive Development in Children
Growing Up Is Hard
1981-bartus.pdf
Pre-natal and post-natal choline supplementation produces long-term facilitation of spatial memory
Metabolic imprinting of choline by its availability during gestation: implications for memory and attentional processing across the lifespan
Prenatal Choline Supplementation Advances Hippocampal Development and Enhances MAPK and CREB Activation
Effect of Supplementing Pregnant and Lactating Mothers With n-3 Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acids on Children’s IQ and Body Mass Index at 7 Years of Age
Modafinil
modafinil#side-effects
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Cognitive Effects of Modafinil in Student Volunteers May Depend on IQ
2003-turner.pdf
2005-waters.pdf
2007-morgan.pdf
2002-beracochea.pdf
Effects of Modafinil on Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive Performance
Effects of modafinil on working memory processes in humans
2008-minzenberg.pdf
2003-beracochea.pdf
Modafinil and memory: effects of modafinil on Morris water maze learning and Pavlovian fear conditioning
2004-ward.pdf
nootropics#armodafinil
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modafinil#tolerance
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Widespread changes in synaptic markers as a function of sleep and wakefulness in Drosophila
Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis: a Hypothesis
Sleep function and synaptic homeostasis
Cortical firing and sleep homeostasis
Molecular and Electrophysiological Evidence for Net Synaptic Potentiation in Wake and Depression in Sleep
https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/1471-2202-13-S1-O6.pdf
Sleep to Upscale, Sleep to Downscale: Balancing Homeostasis and Plasticity
Sleep Oscillations in the Thalamocortical System Induce Long-Term Neuronal Plasticity
1993-everson.pdf
Functional consequences of sustained sleep deprivation in the rat
Systemic Bacterial Invasion Induced by Sleep Deprivation
1995-rechtschaffen.pdf
1996-bergmann.pdf
Sleep Deprivation and Host Defense
Sleep Deprivation in the Rat: An Update of the 1989 Paper
Molecular Insights into Human Brain Evolution
Why Does the Brain Need So Much Power?
The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain
What Makes Humans Unique? (I): The Evolution of the Human Brain
The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution
http://www.neuroscienceschool.ku.dk/cbfm_literature/attwell%20laughlin.pdf
Energetics And The Evolution Of The Genus Homo
https://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/files/Dunbar_etal_2007.pdf
2007-wittman.pdf
Prefrontal cortex in humans and apes: A comparative study of area 10
Developmental structure in brain evolution
The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost
https://intelligence.org/files/HowHardIsAI.pdf
https://websites.umich.edu/~wolpoff/Papers/Brain%20Size.pdf
Neanderthal Brain Size at Birth Sheds Light on Human Evolution
EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN: IS BIGGER BETTER?
If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains Shrinking?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0402857101
http://wildfire-economics.org/Library/Bowman_et_al_2009.pdf
Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain
Why Are Chimps Stronger Than Humans?
The Brain: A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain
Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence
dnb-faq#aging
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1016709108
Paleontological Tests: Human-like Intelligence is not a Convergent Feature of Evolution
1964-simpson.pdf
Thinking like an Octopus: Summer Swims Prompt Researcher to Probe Unusual Intelligence
2009-ibanez.pdf
https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/whence-better-brainshtml
https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/147262/1/j.cub.2011.07.019.pdf
Working Memory of Numerals in Chimpanzees
Memory for the order of briefly presented numerals in humans as a function of practice
Do young chimpanzees have extraordinary working memory?
Super Smart Animals
https://slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/02/how_strong_is_a_chimpanzee.single.html
Relative over-reactivity of human versus chimpanzee lymphocytes: implications for the human diseases associated with immune activation
If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math, Study Finds
1664 1664..1664
Are birds smarter than mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba livia) perform optimally on a version of the Monty Hall Dilemma
Learning How to ‘Make a Deal’: Human (Homo sapiens) and Monkey (Macaca mulatta) Performance When Repeatedly Faced With the Monty Hall Dilemma
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3270029.stm
2006-abma.pdf
Does Having Children Create Happiness?
https://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker
A History of Violence: Edge Master Class 2011
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/0143122010/
Experiencing Ecstasy
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Talent-Improving-Skills/dp/034553025X/
Rejection Therapy on LessWrong.com
Handbook of Psychopathy: Second Edition
2006-harris.pdf
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FDyMThqqX2s47e6rG/open-thread-may-2010?commentId=W77y6fzdLwJyJjqsB
Interesting Links for 06-03-2012
Why IQ Breakthrough Aren‘t: Algernon’s Law
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521885
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/1go60w/algernons_law/
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1gnz8y/algernons_law_can_we_artificially_increase_iq/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/1o8akq/algernons_law/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/33w3mm/the_algernon_argument/
BRAINS PLUS BRAWN
2013-11-08
Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs
Do Life Hacks Ever Reach Fixation?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/systems-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00152/full
The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine
Energetics of the Brain and AI
The Mermaid's Tale: The 'Obstetric Dilemma' Hypothesis Unraveled
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2815%2900958-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/nn0598_36
Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind
https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-their-brains
https://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1851/20162562
The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss