Facts To Boggle Your Brain!

The brain is one of the most complex and magnificent organs in the human body. It processes a constant stream of sensory data and controls our muscle movements, the secretions of our glands, and even our breathing and internal temperature. Every creative thought, feeling, and plan is developed by our brain. The brain’s neurons record the memory of every event in our lives.

Here is a look at some brain facts that will amaze your brain!!!

* We have approximately 70,000 thoughts per day, although many will be the same ones looping round and round on our grooved cranial highway.

* The brain is very poor at concentrating for long periods of time and needs to clear it’s head so to speak about every 90 minutes or so.

* An adult human’s brain weighs 3 pounds. The heaviest on record weighed 5 pounds.

* The human brain is over three times as big as the brain of other mammals that are of similar body size.

* Despite weighing only about 3 pounds, the brain consumes as much as 20% of the oxygen and glucose taken in by the body.

* 15-20% of all blood pumped out of the heart goes directly to the brain.

* Brain is composed of 75 to 80% water. Dehydration can affect proper functioning of brain.

* The right side of the brain interacts with the left side of the body, and vice versa.

* A person who is "left-brained" is often said to be more logical, analytical, and objective, while a person who is "right-brained" is said to be more intuitive, thoughtful, and subjective, but this has been proved to be a myth.

* Even if you consider yourself a left-brained person, your brain will still switch over to the right side every 90 to 120 minutes and then back again.That’s why even left-brained people can have times of the day when they are more creative and right-brained people can sometimes get their taxes in order.

* The brain itself is incapable of feeling pain. Once the skull is opened it is possible to operate on the brain with the patient awake. 

* It is a myth that humans use only 10% of their brains.Modern MRI scans proved that people use just about their entire brain even when they are sleeping.

* The human brain is capable of executing 10 quadrillion calculations per second--no computer today can match the human brain!

* If you were to measure your brainwave activity you wouldn’t see any drop off when you’re asleep.The brain is more active at night than during the day. 

* By age 18, the human brain stops growing. 

* After age 18, the human brain begins to lose more than 1,000 brain cells each day. Do not fear, since the fully developed brain has over 100 billion cells, at the rate of losing 1,000 cells each day, it will take 300,000 years before your brain is out of cells.

* Nerve Impulses from your brain and back travel at over 400 km/hr (250 mi/hr).

* The higher your IQ, the more you dream.The average person has at least seven dreams a night.

* You can’t feel your own tickle either. The brain is smart enough to neutralize the sensation. The cerebellum sends a signal to rest of the brain of your intentions and as a result the sensation is ignored.

* Men's brains are indeed bigger. Does this mean they're smarter? Not necessarily, as in women's brains, the neurons are packed in tightly, so that they're closer together and more compact.

* Researchers from Harvard found that parts  responsible for problem-solving and decision-making, and  for regulating emotions, were larger in women. 

* In men, the parts of brain involved in space perception, and which regulates sexual and social behavior, were larger.

* Men also have approximately 6.5 times more gray matter in the brain than women. Women have about 10 times more white matter than men, which may allow a woman's brain to work faster than a man's.

* Reading out loud to kids accelerates their brain development.

* Our brain never loses the ability to learn and change because it’s effectively plastic and constantly rewiring itself.

* Our brain doesn’t record memories like video. It takes snapshots of the more important bits and then when you recall the event it guesses what happened in between based on prior experience.