Brain

Facinating Facts About Brain

 The typical brain is about 2% of a body’s weight but uses 20% of its total energy and oxygen intake. 

 Your brain is 73% water. It takes only 2% dehydration to affect your attention, memory and other cognitive skills. 

 Ninety minutes of sweating can temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging. 

 Your brain weighs about 3 pounds. Of that, the dry weight is 60% fat, making your brain the fattiest organ.

 Twenty-five percent of the body’s cholesterol resides within the brain. Cholesterol is an integral part of every brain cell. Without adequate cholesterol, brain cells die. 

 No one knows for sure, but the latest estimate is that our brains contain roughly 86 billion brain cells. 

 Each neuron connects with, on average, 40,000 synapses. 

 A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses all communicating with each other.

 All brain cells are not alike. There are as many as 10,000 specific types of neurons in the brain.

Neurons. Neurons develop at the rate of 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy

Size at birth. At birth, your brain was almost the same size as an adult brain and contained most of the brain cells for your whole life.

Newborn’s growth. A newborn baby’s brain grows about three times its size in the first year.

Stopped growing. Your brain stopped growing at age 

Cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex grows thicker as you learn to use it.

Stimulation. A stimulating environment for a child can make the difference between a 25% greater ability to learn or 25% less in an environment with little stimulation.