Could HGH make your smarter? Does HGH make your brain grow?

[Sheldon Cooper]

There are some articles saying that HGH can improve memory or attention. For example, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15177699   .
Could HGH make us smarter? I guess that could partly explain why exercise improves cognitive performance (releases HGH).

Also, does taking HGH make your brain grow? That might also explain the small correlation between brain size and intelligence.

[jotaro]

actually hgh doesnt make your brain grow, brain has its own hormones hgh doesnt effect the brain(the only thing it doesnt effect) .

[jotaro]

then again there might be indirect correlation btw hgh and brain hormones.

[dogb...@yahoo.com]

In all aging studies, GH is a factor of reducing life-span tremendously. It has HUGE negative effects when in excess.

EVERY animal with GH knock-out live a lot longer than with the hormone.

[Sheldon Cooper]

Well, a little bit of lifespan might be worth the sacrifice for increased intelligence. Anyways, if HGH doesn't make your brain bigger, what does? Surely some hormones are responsible for the brain growth that occurs from childhood till adolescence. I can imagine using these hormones to treat people who have been malnourished when they were young to compensate for delayed or incomplete brain maturation.

[Ron Williams]

Er, do we really want a bigger brain in a fixed sized skull, or did I miss something?

On 22/02/2013, at 12:25 PM, Sheldon Cooper <angus....@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, a little bit of lifespan might be worth the sacrifice for increased intelligence. Anyways, if HGH doesn't make your brain bigger, what does? Surely some hormones are responsible for the brain growth that occurs from childhood till adolescence. I can imagine using these hormones to treat people who have been malnourished when they were young to compensate for delayed or incomplete brain maturation.

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[Durantula35]

While HGH may possibly affect intelligence, I doubt it increases the size of the brain especially if you are no longer growing. Your skull is most likely fused anyways. 

[dogb...@yahoo.com]

Size doesn't directly translate to intelligence. 

Einstein for example has a smaller brain than average and he's regarded as an icon of intellect.

On Friday, March 1, 2013 8:15:27 PM UTC-8, PadawanRay wrote:

Think about child prodigies and adolescent chess grandmasters, they have disproportionately intelligence to brain size ratio. On the other hand without brain scans it's hard to know if we have saturated our skulls with brain matter.