This post is Part 5 of a series (see Part 1 for recent, peer-reviewed studies supporting the prevalence and nature of overexcitabilities).

Do you experience verbal or physical intensities (such as strong impulses to talk or move), and are you also a particularly smart individual? If so, you might suspect that your intensities are related to your brain’s supercharged quality. Trust that inkling. This same suspicion might apply to a child, student, or other smart person in your life.

The psychomotor overexcitability (OE) is one of the five intensities that renowned Polish researcher Kazimierz Dabrowski (1902–1980) found in intellectually gifted individuals. Everyone with an IQ of 130 or above has at least one of the five OEs (emotional, imaginational, intellectual, psychomotor, and sensual overexcitabilities). Most have two to five OEs (though they vary in dominance), and many (like me) have all five OEs.

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