35 Short facts about the brain, which will help you better understand how it works

How the brain works? It is too complex a question to him it was possible to answer in a nutshell. The site hopes that as many as three dozen a few facts clarify the picture! < 1. Lack of oxygen for 5-10 minutes resulting in permanent brain damage.

2. The brain evolves and adapts to new, even in 40 years. Reducing mental activity begins when a person is 50 years old.

3. On the "exploitation" of the brain takes up to 20% contained in the body of oxygen and blood.

4. There is a "virus of stupidity." It changes a person's DNA in such a way that the patient reduces the level of intelligence - brain activity decreases, the ability to learn and remember new information.

5. In the waking state the human brain produces enough electricity to him has a small light bulb.

6. Domestic violence has on children's brains the same effect as a soldier - participated in this battle.

7. It is scientifically proven that even a slight use of force is changing algorithms of the brain and reduces the level of empathy (the ability to empathize with the emotions of another person).

8. The taste receptors in the human body can be found in the stomach, intestine, pancreas, lungs, and mustache * I * chkah ... and of course, in the brain.

9. The pathologist who conducted the post-mortem autopsy of Albert Einstein ... stole his mind and kept it 20 years with the bank cn * mouth.

10. 60% of your brain - that ... fat.





11. The human brain is the same consistency as that of tofu.

12. The smell of chocolate activates theta brain waves. As a consequence, there comes relaxation.

13. During orgasm, the brain releases dopamine as (pleasure hormones) that is similar to the brain becomes n * oinovogo bunks * Oman.

14. Forgetting - a useful process for the brain. Removing unnecessary information helps maintain the plasticity of the nervous system.

15. * Al Ogol fails to forget what you did yesterday. When a man gets drunk, they say, "a lord", just at the time of the brain blocks the ability to create the memories of what he saw.

16. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia - the scientific name for the disease, in which a headache because of the rapid eating ice cream.

17. The brain is not divided into left and right hemisphere - is a myth. They work in pairs.

18. Scientists have found: long-term use of mobile phones significantly increase the risk of brain cancer.

19. Deprivation (loss) of sleep affects the brain in several ways. Among them - making the wrong decisions, and slow response.

20. The researchers say - the human brain perceives rejection of anything like a physical pain.

21. In order to respond to the use of al * bare, brain cells enough 6 minutes.

22. When you learn something new, changing the structure of your brain. Yes, it has changed :)

23. The surgeon can remove up to half of the brain without having a negative effect for the individual or memory.

24. Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that the average laptop for $ 1000 will overtake the brain performance not before 2023.

25. Music activates the same areas of the brain that are responsible for producing dopamine while eating or sex.

26. Scientists have found already brain parasites to assert zombie apocalypse - is not something out of science fiction, as one of the potential threats to mankind ...

27. The feeling of self-confidence can be called artificial stimulation of a particular brain region. At the same time there is no need of any facts or proofs.

28. We have more brain cells than a newborn - as large as would not have had.

29. Half of your genes describes the unique "design" your own brain in all its originality, the other half - the organization of all the other 98 percent of your body.

30. The child's brain consumes 50% of the resulting baby glucose. Perhaps that is why they are so much sleep.

31. In 2015, the 4th power of supercomputers in the world it took 40 minutes to simulate the brain for only one second.

32. The human brain consists of 100 billion neurons and 1 trillion glial cells.

33. In the state of rest the brain consumes 1/5 the calories per minute.

34. Scientific fact: a strict diet can cause your brain will devour itself.

35. between people with autism and without it there is no difference in the anatomy of the brain.

via polezner.ru/36-great-facts-about-human-brain/

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