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RE: The 10% Myth and what it implies

in #science7 years ago

I loved the post (as I quite often get into arguments with friends about this topic) but there is one thing I would like to add (or ask) in relation to this part here:

So imagine you suddenly unlock those magic 90% and achieve 100% capacity (at which you already are if you don’t have a brain injury, can’t say it often enough).

Are you including certain mental illnesses as brain injury as, from my knowledge, some mental illnesses can actually suppress normal brain function. I might be wrong on this too which is why I am trying to bring this up as a curiosity.

Doing a quick search (with google scholarly articles) did provide some papers that contained both decreased brain function and depression (as one of my search parameters) but I didn't get around to reading the entire articles to back up my claims above and, well, I don't want to back up my claims with something that either denies it (in which case it wold have been good to read to learn the truth) or something extremely faulty.

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I haven't done enough research on this to give you a definite answer, but in my opinion, anything that keeps the brain from functioning normally can count as some form of injury. While writing this, I didn't even think about anything else than big, "visible" injuries tho.

Don't worry about it, if I get a chance over the next couple of days I will look into it more and try and come up with an actual answer since I have become more curious. Thanks for the response!

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