Amazing Facts About Brain Page 2 of 7

Amazing Fact 11# 

A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains approximately 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses.

Amazing Fact 12# 

The slowest speed information passes around your brain is approximately 260 mph.

Amazing Fact 13# 

A child builds up to 1 trillion synapses in his or her first year of life.

Amazing Fact 14# 

Your sensory system sends about 11 million bits of information to your unconscious brain per second. However, the conscious part of your brain is not aware of more than 16 to 50 of those bits and the lightweight can only deal adequately with about 3 or 4.

Amazing Fact 15# 

You are completely unaware of about 95% of the activity that is going on inside your brain. If you weren’t, your brain would freeze up quicker than a Windows PC running ME.

Amazing Fact 16# 

If you don’t take care of your brain, you can lose up to 85,000 brain cells a day and that’s a large part of what causes aging. With appropriate forethought however, you can reverse that trend and slow the aging process.

Amazing Fact 17# 

Until relatively recently, scientists thought that the brain was the only area of the human body that didn’t generate new cells. We now know that’s not true and the brain does reproduce shiny new cells for you to use or abuse and lose (bearing in mind the last point).

Amazing Fact 18# 

If you lose blood flow to your brain, you will last about 10 second before you pass out.

Amazing Fact 19# 

Your brain has no pain receptors, which is why if I managed to remove the top of your skull without you noticing, I could poke around all day without you feeling a thing. The skull removal may hurt a bit though.

Amazing Fact 20# 

Even though we say the amygdala regulates danger, the cerebellum - motor control, and the limbic system - emotions etc, this is somewhat misleading as no part operates independently and all need other parts of the brain to get their job done to full effect.