Bipolar and Having a high IQ level

Bipolar could be the ‘price humans pay for higher intelligence and creativity’

Oliver Wheaton for Metro.co.ukThursday 20 Aug 2015 4:08 pm

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Stephen Fry has been open about his bipolar diagnosis (Picture: Brian J Ritchie/REX)

Having a high IQ level in childhood has been linked to suffering mood disorders such as bipolar in later life following a recent study.
Through studying children aged eight and then in their early twenties Glasgow, Bristol, Cardiff and Texas made some startling discoveries.
Participants in the study who came in the top 10 per cent of manic traits in adulthood had a childhood IQ nearly 10 points higher than those who scored in the bottom 10 per cent of manic traits.
Researchers believe their findings suggest that bipolar disorder may have been ‘selected through generations’.

‘One possibility is that serious disorders of mood such as bipolar disorder are the price that human beings have had to pay for more adaptive traits such as intelligence, creativity and verbal proficiency,’ said University of Glasgow psychiatry professor Daniel Smith.
It is hoped the study, which was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, will help in earlier detection of mood disorders.
One in every 100 British adults is thought to suffer from bipolar disorder, with many celebrities such as Steven Fry and Russell Brand being open about being afflicted by the condition.

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In India where family history is passed down generations by family members ;this phenomena was known since very  long ago 

31 survive as two planes crash in mid-air-

7 die, 31 survive as two planes crash in mid-air

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Debris of two sport planes that crashed over western Slovakia lie near the village of Cerveny Kamen.

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Over western Slovakia, killing seven people, officials said.

Two planes carrying dozens of parachutists collided in mid-air on Thursday over western Slovakia, killing seven people, officials said. Thirty-one others on board survived by jumping out with their parachutes.

The crash took place on Thursday morning near the village of Cerveny Kamen, said Zuzana Farkasova, a spokeswoman for the Slovak fire-fighters.

Rescue workers used helicopters to reach the forested crash site in the White Carpathians mountain range that forms the border with the Czech Republic.

The two Czech-made L-410 transport planes collided at an altitude of 1,500 meters, said Juraj Denes, an official with the Slovak Air and Naval Investigations Bureau, a government agency that investigates plane crashes.

Peter Bubla, spokesman for the Health Ministry, said 38 people were on board the two planes and 31 survived. Five people needed some medical treatment but nobody was hospitalised, he said.

Some on board jumped out even after the planes collided, according to Interior Minister Robert Kalinak. “The 31 parachutists managed to jump out from the falling planes and survived,” Mr. Kalinak told the TA3 news television station as he visited the crash site. “They all landed safely. It’s a small miracle.”

The dead included the two crew members from both planes and three parachutists, Juraj Gyenes, another official at the aviation investigations agency, told TA3. TA3 reported the parachutists were training for this weekend’s air show in nearby Slavnica. “All of a sudden, I heard a big blow,” one witness told TASR, the Slovak news agency, in a news video. “Then it roared. I thought some pieces were falling, but it could be the parachutists.”

Kalinak and Slovak Health Minister Viliam Cislak visited the crash site, where wreckage from the planes smouldered among the dense mountain forest.

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TIME TO GIVE OPTION OF  EJECTION SEAT WITH PARACHUTE FOR ALL PASSENGERS?WITH SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ,TO PREVENT MISUSE

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