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We are running a huge network in our central nervous system, it is always a wonder to know about the construction and functioning of our brain.
Let's see some interesting facts about our brain. Studying brain is the neurological enlightenment. Knowing more facts about it is very interesting.
Our brain utilizes 20 watts of energy and it is enough to light a bulb. And don't you think this is the reason why sometimes we feel our head is heating up!
75% of this fat ball comprises of water, this composition is necessary. This water content may be used as coolants to cool the heat generated in the brain and also undergoes in generating fluids. Also in regulating various functions in it.
Definitely we are not hosting any Formula one racing inside our heads, but there is a speed in our brains, which is more than that of the Formula one. The signalling speed of our brain is 268 miles per hour (431 kph)
Our brains are getting smaller, over the past 10 - 20,000 years. It is shrinking to the size of a tennis ball.
Human brains are 2% of the entire body weight and elephants 0.2% due to their massive bodies. And 8% in rats, this is why rats are smart.
Men's brains are 10% bigger than women's, even after taking a larger body into account. And this doesn't have anything to do with the thinking capacity.
Albert Einstein's brain weighed in at 2.71 pounds. This is 10% smaller than the average of 3 pounds.
Those sleeping pills don't put us to sleep. They act on our brain and puts it into a state similar to coma. This essentially bypasses any restorative value of sleep.
Brain consumes 20% of oxygen in the entire blood stream. This oxygen will feed the brain and keeps it energetic and active.
1 litre of blood flows through the brain.
Damaging of brain occurs in the absence of oxygen, it cannot survive without oxygen more than 5 minutes.
Each and every part of the brain has it's own function. And it is not true that we use only 10% of the brain, there are many more activities which are carried out with the involvement of brain, even in sleep.
One amazing fact is, being the master of the central nervous system. Brain is the only organ that lacks nerves.
We have also a ‘milky way' in our brain like that of in the universe. Our network is huge one and nobody is sure about how many, but as many as 100 billion neurons are participating in the processing of various tasks.
All brain cells are not alive and active, different cells has different functions. There are 10,000 specific types of neurons are present in the brain.
90 minutes of continuous sweating can result in temporary shrinking of the brain, this is like aging of the brain equal to a year.
We also have a very big ‘chemical lab' or ‘a forensic’ in our brain. Yes, don't panic, since more than 100,000 chemical reactions takes place in our brain every second.
BBB - Blood Brain Barrier will protect our brain from toxins and frequent chemical fluctuations.
95% people forget what they dreamt last night or during a rest. And 12% of people dream in black & white.
If anyone say that they are smart enough, then they are liers. Because our brain fools us around making us to believe things differently from the reality.
From Visually.An average brain has around 50,000 thoughts per a day and almost 70% of them are believed to be negative.
We are 95% out of control in our lives, as only 5% decisions are made during the conscious state and the rest are during unconsciousness.
A drunken person fails to recall what he/she did after consumption of alcohol. This is not any ‘forgetting' disease. It is only due to the fact that brain fails to forming the memories in that drunken state.
Alcohol doesn't kill brain cells, it ‘only' damages the connective tissues at the end of neurons.
Neocortex is approximately upto 76%. It is the organ involved in the language and consciousness. This is why we can speak and animals not. Since animals have less percent of it.
Every brain loves music, it depends on the personnel who uses his/her brain. Slow or fast beat, brain is fond of lot of music.
Multitasking must not be encouraged, it will makes you less productive. Our brain will toggle back and forth between the tasks. This results in lack of attention span decreasing, learning, performance and short-term memory.
Coming to the storage memory, we already knew our brain equals many supercomputers. Brain's storage capacity is considered virtually unlimited. And there is no losing of RAM unlike our electronically programmed devices.
“Our brain know no pain” Although pain is felt because of the processing in brain. The reason behind this is brain don't have pain receptors to sense the pain. That's why while a brain surgery, the patient can be awake and feels no pain or discomfort.
There is nothing like left-brained or right-brained. This is only a myth. We all are full-brained.
Neurons multiply at the rate of 250,00 per minute during early pregnancy.
15-20% (750 ml) of the total cardiac output is directed to the brain
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