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16 facts about human brain

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1. Your brain uses only 12 watts of power. In a day your brain uses about the same amount of energy as two large bananas!! Its a complete energy hog, its only 3% of the body's total weight but consumes 17% of its energy!

2. Frequent Jet Lag can damage your memory! In repeated doses it can do damage to your brain's health. This is because you are crossing many time zones, this means you can experience brain damages, which produces stress hormones, which causes it. You don't need to worry unless you cross more than 2 time zones per week, even that might be harmless though!

3. Shoot em up games can help you to multitask!! Because the aim of the game is to shoot as many enemies as possible before they shoot you, these games teach you to use a number of controls at once and be trying to look everywhere on the screen at once!! Surprisingly, the game tetras doesn't have the same effect, perhaps because you only have to concentrate on one object at a time!

4. The brain actually has a joke centre! To make it a joke, instead of a logic puzzle, the result needs to be a coherent story that isn't strictly sensible in everyday terms, says the times online. If you have damage done to the humour part of your brain, given a bunch of punch lines, you will not be able to tell which ones funny!

5. Yawns wake up the brain! although we associate yawns with tiredness or boredom they actually wake up the brain! It allows large amounts of air to pass into our lungs, then oxygen enters our blood, making us more alert!

6.Human Human brain uses 20 percent of body energy, but it makes up only 2% of Human body's weight.

7.Human Human cerebral cortex is about as thick as a tongue depressor. It grows thicker as you learn and use it.

8.Human Human brain is about thirteen hundred to fourteen hundred cubic centimeters in volume, wrinkled like a walnut about and the size of a cantaloupe.

9.Human The Human brain feels like a ripe avocado and its color is pink because of the blood flowing through it.

10.Human Human brain generates 25 watts of power in awakening state which is enough to illuminate a light bulb.

11.Human The Brain of new born grows almost three time during the perion of first year.

12.Human Humans have the most complex brain of any living being on this earth.

13.Human Human brain is divided into two parts.The left part of Human brain controls the right part of ones body; and, the right part of Human brain controls the left part of Human body.

14. A boiled cooked potato can be as a catalyst for Human brain when you are feeling uneasy.

15. Eating foods which are rich in beta-carotene, vitamin E, and vitamin C may help to drop the effects of Alzheimer's disease.

16.Human some allopathic medicines may dramatically affect the concentration power of Human brain.



Comments

Jan 9, 2010 4:19pm
kp3028
It is a remarkable muscle.
Aug 15, 2011 11:36pm
tgreene6
There were a few facts that I hadn't heard before that were interesting, but make sure to proof read your articles before you submit them.
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