Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute

Comparative Analysis of Cranial Capacity with Body Mass Index and Academic Performance of First Year Medical Students

Published in JOURNAL FOR CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH

INTRODUCTION It is an established fact that there exists a relationship between cranial capacity and volume of the brain and this, in turn, can reflect an individual's intelligence. This is proved by the fact that lower mammals have small head size compared to highly evolved human cranium. It was first reported in 1888 that, there is a quantitative...