A Lifetime of Intelligence

"In two landmark and world-famous studies, over 150,000 eleven-year-olds participated in Scottish national intelligence tests, known as the Scottish Mental Surveys, which are the only studies to date to test an entire population. Over the past 10 years, Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley, and John M. Starr have conducted follow-up studies with many of these now elderly participants. Using the latest testing assessments and technology, they have further investigated the roles of biological and sociobehavioral factors in cognitive aging." "This book is important to many fields and will surely become the source to consult on anything related to IQ and its effects on cognitive aging and physical longevity. It captures a lifetime of intelligence, from childhood to about age 80, and also explores general matters of intelligence. Does having a high childhood IQ affect one's likelihood of being ill later in life or surviving to old age? Does it affect happiness later in life? Does being a twin affect childhood intelligence? These questions and more are explored in depth in this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Lawrence J. Whalley is professor of mental health at the University of Aberdeen. Ian J. Deary is professor of differential psychology at the University of Edinburgh and director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Historical Overview	p. 1
The Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947	p. 5
Cognitive Epidemiology: Does Childhood IQ Affect Illness Later in Life or Survival to Old Age?	p. 41
Childhood IQ and All-Cause Mortality	p. 45
Childhood IQ and Specific Causes of Death and Mortality-Related Physical Factors	p. 69
Childhood IQ and Mental Illness	p. 85
What Causes Cognitive Aging?	p. 95
Recruiting the Aberdeen Birth Cohorts 1921 and 1936 and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 and Assessing the Stability of Intelligence Across the Life Span	p. 101
Findings on Biological Factors	p. 115
Findings on Health and Nutrition-Related Factors	p. 159
Other Associations With Childhood IQ	p. 177
Factors That Preceded Childhood IQ Test Scores	p. 181
Factors That Came After the Childhood IQ Test Scores	p. 197
Can Lifetime Cognitive Changes Be Estimated Without Premorbid Test Scores?	p. 213
Validating the National Adult Reading Test	p. 217
Postscript: Looking Ahead	p. 225
Scotland at the Time of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947	p. 229
References	p. 245
Author Index	p. 265
Subject Index	p. 271
About the Authors	p. 285
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