10 facts about the brain

Ten facts about the brain:

1. Brain and muscle as the more you train it, the more it grows. Brain average adult male weighs 1424 grams, with age the brain is reduced to a mass of 1395 biggest female brain by weight - 1565 Record the weight of the male brain - Brain 2049 Turgenev weighed 2012 The brain evolves: 1860 the average male brain weight was 1372 Flyweight normal brain belonged neatrofirovannogo 31-year-old woman - 1096 Dinosaurs, reaches 9 meters in length, had a brain the size of a walnut and weighs only '70

2. The most rapid brain development occurs between the ages of 2 and 11 years old.

3. Regular prayer reduces respiration rate and normalize wave oscillations of the brain, contributing to the process of self-healing organism. Religious people go to 36% less likely to see a doctor than the rest.

4. What is a man of education, the lower the probability of brain diseases. Intellectual activity causes production of extra tissue that compensates for the ailing.

5. Occupation unfamiliar activity - the best way to brain development. Communication with those who excel you in intellect, is also a potent tool of brain development.

6. The signals in the human nervous system reach a velocity of 288 km / h. With age the speed is reduced by 15 percent.

7. The world's largest donor marrow is a religious order of sisters, teachers in Mankato, Minnesota. Nuns in his posthumous testaments donated to science about 700 units of the brain.

8. The highest level of intellectual development (IQ) showed Marilyn Vos Savant Much of Missouri, who at the age of ten years has had an average IQ score for a 23-year-olds. She managed to pass a difficult test for entry into the privileged Mega Society, which includes only about three dozen people who have such a high IQ, which is found in only one person in a million.

9. The highest national average IQ in the world, the Japanese -111. In 10 percent of the Japanese index above 130.

10. Sverhfotograficheskaya memory belongs Creighton Carvello capable at a glance remember the sequence of cards in six separate decks (312 pieces). Usually in our lives, we use 5-7 percent of brain capacity. It is hard to imagine how many committed and would open people, make use of it is still at least as much. Why do we have such a margin of safety, scientists have not yet figured out.