Your brain uses a fifth(20%) of all your blood. It needs it to keep up with the heavy metabolic demands of its neurons. It needs not only oxygen but glucose too
A 10 minute loss of oxygen will usually cause significant neural damage. Cold can lengthen this time, which is why cold-water drowning victims have been revived after as much as 40 minutes - without brain damage.(Read More)
Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 rain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
The most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
Our brain is the most fatty organ in your body.
When you sleep, you’re virtually paralyzed because your brain creates a hormone to prevent you from acting out your dreams.
89.06 is the percentage of people who report normally writing with their right hand, 10.6% with their left and 0.34% with either hand.
About 12% of people dream in black and white.
So ... Keep exercising your brain, because mental activity stimulates the creation of new neurons throughout your whole life and keeps them running.
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