A new study finds autism and schizophrenia may lie at the crux of what makes humans uniquely intelligent.

"Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain unique also made humans more neurodiverse," says Stanford University neuroscientist Alexander Starr.

While both autism and schizophrenia are neurodevelopmental brain differences that can have a mix of negative and positive impacts (including increased creativity ), to be very clear, the new study's findings don't indicate that neurodivergent people are more or less intelligent; that's not at all what was measured here.

Rather, the researchers found that genes responsible for human intellect also increase our chances of having autistic or schizophrenic traits.

As it is rare to find the beh

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