Interesting Facts About The Human Brain to Know

by Unknown Monday, March 05, 2012 2 comments health Tips and Tricks

1. The human brain is made up of about 75% water and consists of about a hundred billion neurons.
2. The human brain is the fattest organ in the body that may consists of at least 60% fat.
3. Tthe human brain is 2% of total body weight ,
4. Humans have the largest brain to body size.
5. A newborn human baby’s brain grows about three times its size in the first year and continues to grow till age 18.
6. There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.
7. Information can be processed as slowly as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec (about 268 miles/hr).
8. The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
9. While awake, human brain generates between 10 and 23 watts of power which could be enough energy to power a light bulb.
10. It is thought that a yawn works to send more oxygen to the brain either to cool it down or wake it up.
11. The human brain uses 20% of the total oxygen as well as uses 20% of the blood circulating in human body.
12. If human brain loses blood for 8 to 10 seconds, a person will lose consciousness.
13. The human brain can live for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen, and then it begins to die and no oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes will result in permanent brain damage.
14. Music lessons have shown to considerably boost brain organization and ability in both children and adults.
15. Reading aloud and talking often to a young child promotes brain development.
16. Learning new things helps the human brain to change very quickly.
17. Child abuse can damage development of the brain to the extent permanently affecting it.
18. Every part of the brain has a known function.
19. Laughing at a joke is no simple task as it requires activity in five different areas of the human brain.
20.  Excessive stress has shown to “alter brain cells, brain structure and brain function.”
21.  Humans can’t tickle themselves because the brain distinguishes between unexpected external touch and a person’s own touch.
22. Without any words, humans may be able to determine mood of a person just by reading the face.
23. A small area in the brain called the amygdala is responsible for the ability to read someone else’s face for clues to how they are feeling.
24. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain.
25. Scientists have discovered that men and women’s brains react differently to pain,
26. There is a class of people known as supertasters who not only have more taste buds on the tongue, but whose brain is more sensitive to the tastes of foods and drinks.
27. Memory is formed by associations, so to remember things one should create associations to recall.
28. Anomia is the technical word for tip-of-the-tongue syndrome when you can almost remember a word, but it just won’t come out.
29. During sleep at night memories from the whole day are consolidated and lack of sleep may actually hurt the ability to create new memories.
30. Insulin works to regulate blood-sugar in the body, but recently, scientists have discovered that its presence in the brain also helps promote memory.
31. Most people dream about an hour or two at night and have an average of 4-7 dreams each night.
32. Five minutes after a dream, half of the dream is forgotten. Ten minutes after a dream, over 90% is forgotten.
33. If someone awakes during a dream, it is much more likely to remember the dream than if one slept until a full night’s sleep.
34. Some people (about 12%) dream only in black and white while others dream in color.
35. If someone is snoring, they are not dreaming.
36. Humans blink 20,000 times a day