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The brain perceives images 60,000 times faster than text.
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While you are drunk your brain is incapable of forming memories.
As any parent can attest, teen brains are not fully formed until about the age of 25.
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Humans don鈥檛 have the biggest brains. That honor belongs to sperm whales with 17 pound brains.
New Brain Connections Are Created Every Time You Form a Memory.
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Neanderthal brains were 10% larger than our homo sapiens brains.
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No one knows for sure, but the latest estimate is that our brains contain roughly 86 billion brain cells.
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25% of the body鈥檚 cholesterol resides within the brain. Without adequate cholesterol, brain cells die.
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Birdsong & human speech are similar. Bird's start vocalizing early in life & imitate the adults to gain these skills
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Approximately 20% of the blood flowing from the heart is pumped to the brain.
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The typical brain is about 2% of a body鈥檚 weight but uses 20% of its total energy and oxygen intake.
When mothers frequently spoke to their infants, their children learned about 300 more words by age 2.
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It's estimated that a baby loses about 1/2 their neurons before they are born. This is referred to as pruning.
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