15 Brainy Facts

Brain 15 Things You Didn't Know About the The brain consists of three parts: Controls all thoughts, senses, motor functions, emotion & hunger. Forebrain Controls auditory and visual reflexes as well as awareness. Midbrain Controls coordination and analysis of senses. Hindbrain The brain has two hemispheres: Left for analytical thoughts Right for creative thoughts Analytical Creative The belief that we only use 10% of our brains is a Every portion has a function and is hard at work. myth. Your brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels. Enough to circle Earth four times. ..And 100 billion neurons. These cells are known as the gray matter which process information. x 100,000,000,000 Learning a second language before age 5 changes how the brain will develop later in life. These children's brains are able to produce denser gray matter by adulthood. If the brain were a hard drive it would hold 4 terabytes of information. IIIIII IIIIII Or enough to hold 4% of the entire Library of Congress's data. 80 Blu-Ray Discs 850 DVD-R Discs The world champion of memorization is Ben Pridmore. He is able to memorize the order of a deck of cards in 26.38 seconds. What you eat affects your brain: One study of one-million students in New York showed people who ate a lunch without preservatives or artificial dyes scored 14% higher on IQ tests. Another study showed people that ate seafood at least once a week had a 30% lower occurrence of dementia. 10 20% of the oxygen you inhale is used by the brain. 11 Size doesn't always matter: Einstein's brain weighed 1,230 grams. Average male 's brain weighs 1,360 grams. Lighteeight Hearyweight 12 Speaking of Einstein's brain, scientists preserved it for study. It is split into 240 separate slides for viewing. 13 Men process information primarily from the left side of the brain. Women tend to use both sides at the same time. 14 There is truth behind the saying men are rational and women are emotional. Limbic System Women are more emotional because they have a larger limbic system which regulates emotion. Yet, men have a larger inferior-parietal lobule that controls mathematical ability. 15 In rare cases the brain goes haywire and these occur: Exploding Head Syndrome Individual hears a loud bang coming from the middle of their head. Phantom Extra Limb Syndrome You think you have more limbs than you actually have. Sleep Paralysis The inability to move your limbs upon waking up from sleep because the brain is still in REM mode. Design by Jason Powers www.OnlineNursingPrograms.net Sources. htp://www.sfn.orglindex.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_thebilingualbrain http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structurel.html http://health.msn.com/health-topieslarticlepage.aspx?ep-documentid=100239845 http://www.physorg.com/news159536686.html http://www.thirdlage.com/love-romancelthe-male-vs-the-female-brain http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-us-lefi-brain http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome htp://www.stanford.edul-dement/paralysis.html http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/phantom_extra_limbs.html http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/did_you_know.asp http://video.nationalgeographic.com/videolplayer/sciencelhealth-human-body-scilhuman-body/brain-bank-sci.html Brain 15 Things You Didn't Know About the 1 The brain consists of three parts: Controls all thoughts, senses, motor functions, emotion & hunger. Forebrain Controls auditory and visual reflexes as well as awareness. Midbrain Controls coordination and analysis of senses. Hindbrain The brain has two hemispheres: Left for analytical thoughts Right for creative thoughts Analytical Creative 3 The belief that we only use 10% of our brains is a Every portion has a function and is hard at work. myth. 4 Your brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels. Enough to circle Earth four times. 5 ..And 100 billion neurons. These cells are known as the gray matter which process information. x 100,000,000,000 6 Learning a second language before age 5 changes how the brain will develop later in life. 私 These children's brains are able to produce denser gray matter by adulthood. 7 If the brain were a hard drive it would hold 4 terabytes of information. IIIIII IIIIII Or enough to hold 4% of the entire Library of Congress's data. 80 Blu-Ray Discs 850 DVD-R Discs 8 The world champion of memorization is Ben Pridmore. He is able to memorize the order of a deck of cards in 26.38 seconds. 9 What you eat affects your brain: One study of one-million students in New York showed people who ate a lunch without preservatives or artificial dyes scored 14% higher on IQ tests. Another study showed people that ate seafood at least once a week had a 30% lower occurrence of dementia. 10 20% of the oxygen you inhale is used by the brain. 11 Size doesn't always matter: Einstein's brain weighed 1,230 grams. Average male 's brain weighs 1,360 grams. Lighteeight Hearyweight 12 Speaking of Einstein's brain, scientists preserved it for study. It is split into 240 separate slides for viewing. 13 Men process information primarily from the left side of the brain. Women tend to use both sides at the same time. 14 There is truth behind the saying men are rational and women are emotional. Limbic System Women are more emotional because they have a larger limbic system which regulates emotion. Yet, men have a larger inferior-parietal lobule that controls mathematical ability. 15 In rare cases the brain goes haywire and these occur: Exploding Head Syndrome Individual hears a loud bang coming from the middle of their head. Phantom Extra Limb Syndrome You think you have more limbs than you actually have. Sleep Paralysis The inability to move your limbs upon waking up from sleep because the brain is still in REM mode. Design by Jason Powers www.OnlineNursingPrograms.net Sources. htp://www.sfn.orglindex.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_thebilingualbrain http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structurel.html http://health.msn.com/health-topieslarticlepage.aspx?ep-documentid=100239845 http://www.physorg.com/news159536686.html http://www.thirdlage.com/love-romancelthe-male-vs-the-female-brain http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-us-lefi-brain http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome htp://www.stanford.edul-dement/paralysis.html http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/phantom_extra_limbs.html http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/did_you_know.asp http://video.nationalgeographic.com/videolplayer/sciencelhealth-human-body-scilhuman-body/brain-bank-sci.html Brain 15 Things You Didn't Know About the 1 The brain consists of three parts: Controls all thoughts, senses, motor functions, emotion & hunger. Forebrain Controls auditory and visual reflexes as well as awareness. Midbrain Controls coordination and analysis of senses. Hindbrain The brain has two hemispheres: Left for analytical thoughts Right for creative thoughts Analytical Creative 3 The belief that we only use 10% of our brains is a Every portion has a function and is hard at work. myth. 4 Your brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels. Enough to circle Earth four times. 5 ..And 100 billion neurons. These cells are known as the gray matter which process information. x 100,000,000,000 6 Learning a second language before age 5 changes how the brain will develop later in life. 私 These children's brains are able to produce denser gray matter by adulthood. 7 If the brain were a hard drive it would hold 4 terabytes of information. IIIIII IIIIII Or enough to hold 4% of the entire Library of Congress's data. 80 Blu-Ray Discs 850 DVD-R Discs 8 The world champion of memorization is Ben Pridmore. He is able to memorize the order of a deck of cards in 26.38 seconds. 9 What you eat affects your brain: One study of one-million students in New York showed people who ate a lunch without preservatives or artificial dyes scored 14% higher on IQ tests. Another study showed people that ate seafood at least once a week had a 30% lower occurrence of dementia. 10 20% of the oxygen you inhale is used by the brain. 11 Size doesn't always matter: Einstein's brain weighed 1,230 grams. Average male 's brain weighs 1,360 grams. Lighteeight Hearyweight 12 Speaking of Einstein's brain, scientists preserved it for study. It is split into 240 separate slides for viewing. 13 Men process information primarily from the left side of the brain. Women tend to use both sides at the same time. 14 There is truth behind the saying men are rational and women are emotional. Limbic System Women are more emotional because they have a larger limbic system which regulates emotion. Yet, men have a larger inferior-parietal lobule that controls mathematical ability. 15 In rare cases the brain goes haywire and these occur: Exploding Head Syndrome Individual hears a loud bang coming from the middle of their head. Phantom Extra Limb Syndrome You think you have more limbs than you actually have. Sleep Paralysis The inability to move your limbs upon waking up from sleep because the brain is still in REM mode. Design by Jason Powers www.OnlineNursingPrograms.net Sources. htp://www.sfn.orglindex.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_thebilingualbrain http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structurel.html http://health.msn.com/health-topieslarticlepage.aspx?ep-documentid=100239845 http://www.physorg.com/news159536686.html http://www.thirdlage.com/love-romancelthe-male-vs-the-female-brain http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-us-lefi-brain http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome htp://www.stanford.edul-dement/paralysis.html http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/phantom_extra_limbs.html http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/did_you_know.asp http://video.nationalgeographic.com/videolplayer/sciencelhealth-human-body-scilhuman-body/brain-bank-sci.html Brain 15 Things You Didn't Know About the 1 The brain consists of three parts: Controls all thoughts, senses, motor functions, emotion & hunger. Forebrain Controls auditory and visual reflexes as well as awareness. Midbrain Controls coordination and analysis of senses. Hindbrain The brain has two hemispheres: Left for analytical thoughts Right for creative thoughts Analytical Creative 3 The belief that we only use 10% of our brains is a Every portion has a function and is hard at work. myth. 4 Your brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels. Enough to circle Earth four times. 5 ..And 100 billion neurons. These cells are known as the gray matter which process information. x 100,000,000,000 6 Learning a second language before age 5 changes how the brain will develop later in life. 私 These children's brains are able to produce denser gray matter by adulthood. 7 If the brain were a hard drive it would hold 4 terabytes of information. IIIIII IIIIII Or enough to hold 4% of the entire Library of Congress's data. 80 Blu-Ray Discs 850 DVD-R Discs 8 The world champion of memorization is Ben Pridmore. He is able to memorize the order of a deck of cards in 26.38 seconds. 9 What you eat affects your brain: One study of one-million students in New York showed people who ate a lunch without preservatives or artificial dyes scored 14% higher on IQ tests. Another study showed people that ate seafood at least once a week had a 30% lower occurrence of dementia. 10 20% of the oxygen you inhale is used by the brain. 11 Size doesn't always matter: Einstein's brain weighed 1,230 grams. Average male 's brain weighs 1,360 grams. Lighteeight Hearyweight 12 Speaking of Einstein's brain, scientists preserved it for study. It is split into 240 separate slides for viewing. 13 Men process information primarily from the left side of the brain. Women tend to use both sides at the same time. 14 There is truth behind the saying men are rational and women are emotional. Limbic System Women are more emotional because they have a larger limbic system which regulates emotion. Yet, men have a larger inferior-parietal lobule that controls mathematical ability. 15 In rare cases the brain goes haywire and these occur: Exploding Head Syndrome Individual hears a loud bang coming from the middle of their head. Phantom Extra Limb Syndrome You think you have more limbs than you actually have. Sleep Paralysis The inability to move your limbs upon waking up from sleep because the brain is still in REM mode. Design by Jason Powers www.OnlineNursingPrograms.net Sources. htp://www.sfn.orglindex.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_thebilingualbrain http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structurel.html http://health.msn.com/health-topieslarticlepage.aspx?ep-documentid=100239845 http://www.physorg.com/news159536686.html http://www.thirdlage.com/love-romancelthe-male-vs-the-female-brain http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-us-lefi-brain http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome htp://www.stanford.edul-dement/paralysis.html http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/phantom_extra_limbs.html http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/did_you_know.asp http://video.nationalgeographic.com/videolplayer/sciencelhealth-human-body-scilhuman-body/brain-bank-sci.html Brain 15 Things You Didn't Know About the 1 The brain consists of three parts: Controls all thoughts, senses, motor functions, emotion & hunger. Forebrain Controls auditory and visual reflexes as well as awareness. Midbrain Controls coordination and analysis of senses. Hindbrain The brain has two hemispheres: Left for analytical thoughts Right for creative thoughts Analytical Creative 3 The belief that we only use 10% of our brains is a Every portion has a function and is hard at work. myth. 4 Your brain has 100,000 miles worth of blood vessels. Enough to circle Earth four times. 5 ..And 100 billion neurons. These cells are known as the gray matter which process information. x 100,000,000,000 6 Learning a second language before age 5 changes how the brain will develop later in life. 私 These children's brains are able to produce denser gray matter by adulthood. 7 If the brain were a hard drive it would hold 4 terabytes of information. IIIIII IIIIII Or enough to hold 4% of the entire Library of Congress's data. 80 Blu-Ray Discs 850 DVD-R Discs 8 The world champion of memorization is Ben Pridmore. He is able to memorize the order of a deck of cards in 26.38 seconds. 9 What you eat affects your brain: One study of one-million students in New York showed people who ate a lunch without preservatives or artificial dyes scored 14% higher on IQ tests. Another study showed people that ate seafood at least once a week had a 30% lower occurrence of dementia. 10 20% of the oxygen you inhale is used by the brain. 11 Size doesn't always matter: Einstein's brain weighed 1,230 grams. Average male 's brain weighs 1,360 grams. Lighteeight Hearyweight 12 Speaking of Einstein's brain, scientists preserved it for study. It is split into 240 separate slides for viewing. 13 Men process information primarily from the left side of the brain. Women tend to use both sides at the same time. 14 There is truth behind the saying men are rational and women are emotional. Limbic System Women are more emotional because they have a larger limbic system which regulates emotion. Yet, men have a larger inferior-parietal lobule that controls mathematical ability. 15 In rare cases the brain goes haywire and these occur: Exploding Head Syndrome Individual hears a loud bang coming from the middle of their head. Phantom Extra Limb Syndrome You think you have more limbs than you actually have. Sleep Paralysis The inability to move your limbs upon waking up from sleep because the brain is still in REM mode. Design by Jason Powers www.OnlineNursingPrograms.net Sources. htp://www.sfn.orglindex.cfm?pagename=brainBriefings_thebilingualbrain http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structurel.html http://health.msn.com/health-topieslarticlepage.aspx?ep-documentid=100239845 http://www.physorg.com/news159536686.html http://www.thirdlage.com/love-romancelthe-male-vs-the-female-brain http://www.funderstanding.com/content/right-brain-us-lefi-brain http://www.doctorhugo.org/brain4.html http://www.sleepassociation.org/index.php?p=explodingheadsyndrome htp://www.stanford.edul-dement/paralysis.html http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/05/phantom_extra_limbs.html http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/did_you_know.asp http://video.nationalgeographic.com/videolplayer/sciencelhealth-human-body-scilhuman-body/brain-bank-sci.html