20 interesting facts about the HUMAN BRAIN!
Although it is responsible for only about 2% of body weight, the brain consumes 20% of the oxygen in our blood and 25% glucose (sugar) circulating in the blood stream.
In the brain is about 100 billion neurons, but they account for only 10% of the brain. About 75% of the brain is water.
Your brain is able to have more idea of the number of atoms in the known universe!
The brain produces electricity strong enough to power a light bulb of 10 to 23 W.
The average adult human brain weighs about 1.3 - 1.4 kg. The size and weight have absolutely no connection with intelligence quotient (IQ).
When the shut off the flow of blood to the brain, on the loss of consciousness after 8 - 10 seconds, and oxygen can survive for 4 - 6 minutes.
The brain of a newborn baby to triple in size in the first year of life.
Studies show that 50-70% of visits to the doctor for physical ailments caused by none other than the brain itself ill persons (stress).
When you have a headache, do not hurt your brain. This body has no pain receptors and therefore can not feel pain.
The brain is most active when you sleep. People with higher IQ dream more, and has also been proven that people who get some sleep during the day have more energy and better focus on the job. (This show boss).
Many studies have shown that the brain without any problems can create false memories, ie, create an event in your childhood that actually never happened.
Laughter activates five different parts of the brain.
The left brain (left hemisphere) controls the right side of the body, the right side of the brain (right hemisphere) is controlled on the left side of the body.
If it is healthy, your brain never loses the ability to learn.
Studies have shown that the hippocampus, the part that deals with visual-spatial awareness, higher in the London taxi driver than other people. London taxi drivers for months and sometimes years memorize virtually every street in London before they obtain a license.
In the brain there are certain 'mirror neurons' why yawn yawn when others around you, and why you hurt moment part of the body, although someone else hit. Scientists believe that it is these neurons responsible for the general feeling of empathy for others.
Drugs like cocaine activates the pleasure center in the brain (nucleus accumbens), and releases dopamine, serotonin that make you happy. Nucleus accumbens is activated when osboi help in trouble or donate money / goods to a charitable organization.
Every time you remember something or have a new thought, you are creating a new connection in the brain.
While the brain elephant physically larger than the human, the human brain occupies 2% of total body weight (as compared to the 0.15% of the brain of an elephant), which means that people have by far the most brain relative to body size.
Numerous scientific studies have concluded that reading aloud to children, often chatting with them substantially contributes to the development of their brains.