Brain Facts: 67 Facts about The Brain ←FACTSlides→

Lack of oxygen in the brain for 5 to 10 minutes results in permanent brain damage.

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Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.

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New Brain Connections Are Created Every Time You Form a Memory.

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Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.

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There's a virus that attacks human DNA making people less intelligent, impairing brain activity, learning and memory.

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When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

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Violent homes have the same effect

on children's brains as combat on soldiers.

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It's scientifically proven that even a small dose of POWER changes how a person's brain operates and diminishes empathy.

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You have Taste receptors

in the stomach, intestines,

pancreas, lungs, anus,

testicles and the brain.

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The pathologist who made Einstein body's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.

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The human brain has the same consistency as tofu.

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The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.

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The brain releases so much
dopamine during orgasms

that a brain scan resembles
that of someone on heroin.

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Forgetting is good for the brain: deleting unnecessary information helps the nervous system retain its plasticity.

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Alcohol doesn't make you forget anything. When you get blackout drunk, the brain temporarily loses the ability to create memories.

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"Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"

is the scientific term for brain freeze.

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There is no Left Brain/Right Brain Divide. It's a myth. They work together.

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Long-term mobile phone use significantly increases the risk of brain tumours, a study found.

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Sleep deprivation affects the brain in multiple ways that can impair judgment and slow reaction.

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The brain treats rejection like physical pain, according to scientists.

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It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.

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When you learn something new, the structure of your brain changes.

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Male brains, on average, have a total volume that is between 8% and 13% larger than that of females.

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By 2023, the average US$1,000 laptop will be just as fast as the human brain, according to Ray Kurzweil.

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Music triggers activity in the same brain structure that releases the "pleasure chemical" dopamine during sex and eating.

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Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientist now think a Zombie Apocalypse is actually possible.

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The feeling of Certainty can be triggered without the need for facts or reasoning, using electric stimulation over a specific part of the brain.

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We have more brain cells as a newborn baby than we will ever have again.

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Half of your genes describe the complex design of your brain, with the other half describing the organization of the other 98% of your body.

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A baby's brain can use up to 50% of the total glucose supply, which may help explain why babies need so much sleep.

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In 2015, the 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world took 40 minutes to simulate just one second of human brain activity.

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The human brain is composed of about 100 billion neurons plus a trillion glial cells.

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At rest, your brain uses one-fifth of a calorie per minute.

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There are virtually no differences in brain anatomy between people with autism and those without.

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You have about 70,000 thoughts a day.

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Half our brains can be removed by surgery with no apparent effect on personality or memory.

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There is no such thing as a "male brain" or a "female brain," all have an unpredictable mishmash of malelike and femalelike features.

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Recovering from a break-up is like a kicking an addiction to a drug, researchers found from looking at the brain scans of the broken-hearted.

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Research on naps, meditation and nature walks reveals that mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity.

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The human brain named itself.

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Researchers found that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow.

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Human beings have as many brain cells in their stomachs as cats have in their brains.

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Brain age decreases by 0.95 years for each year of education, and by 0.58 years for every daily flight of stairs climbed, a study found.

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The brain can't actually feel pain despite its billions of neurons.

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We can't remember much of our first few years because the hippocampus wasn't developed enough to build a rich memory of an event.

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Human brains are 10% smaller than they were 20,000 years ago.

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The human brain has enough memory to hold three million hours of television.

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Humans spend 13% of their lives not focusing on anything in particular.

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It takes about 0.2 seconds for your brain to understand the light that reaches your eye.

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A woman's hippocampus —central to memories, mood, and emotions—grows in sync with estrogen levels as she goes through her menstrual cycle.

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Breastfeeding actually changes the way a mother's brain works, making her more attuned to the child's crying.

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People plotting revenge experience heightened activity in the brain's reward center, according to a 2004 study in the journal Science.

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Our brain's cognitive decline starts at age 24, according to a study.

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A scan of Sting's brain found that composing music activates different parts of the brain than writing poetry or creating art.

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To your brain, one sleepless night is the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.

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35 years after leaving school, the majority of people can still identify 90% of their classmates.

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The average intelligence of humans has risen 20 IQ points since 1950, a study found.

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Lack of sleep may shrink your brain.

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Research shows that people can handle two tasks at a time, but they make three times as many errors when a third task is added.

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Brain scans taken during a study showed that listening to poems activated parts of participants' brains that are not activated when listening to music or watching films.

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When looking at a crowd, we can only recognize two faces at a time.

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To understand a pun, your brain's right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of the joke.

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The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind and finds the right one in 600 milliseconds.

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While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, neuroscientist James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile.

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Even a short, one-time burst of exercise can boost parts of the brain responsible for executive function such as decision-making and focus, a research paper found.

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A study using MRI scans showed that the brains of people who exercise moderately look 10 years younger than those who don't.

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When you first meet people it is common to forget their names - a phenomenon called the ‘next-in-line' effect. This is because people are too worried about themselves, and what they'll say next, to focus on remembering the names of people they're introduced to.

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Brain Facts 67 Facts about The Brain

Brain Facts
67 Facts about The Brain