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| The weight of an average human brain is about 1300-1400g – @ 3lbs i.e., almost one bag of sugar. It’s smaller than an elephant’s brain (6000g) but bigger than a monkey’s brain (95g)! A dog’s brain weighs about 72g and a cat’s brain weighs abut 30g. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain! | The brain represents about 2% of your total body weight. It is roughly 140mm wide, 167mm long and 93mm high |
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| Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons per minute during early pregnancy | Your brain uses approximately 20% of the total oxygen pumping around your body…and about 750ml of blood pumps through your brain every minute! |
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| Unconsciousness will occur after 8-10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the brain | Information travels at different speeds within different types of neurons. Transmission can be as slow as 0.5 meters/sec or as fast as 120 meters/sec.
Traveling at 120 meters/sec is the same as going 268 miles/hour |
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| The human brain is approximately 75% water | The number of internal thought pathways that your brain is capable of producing is:one followed by 10.5 million kilometers of standard typewritten zero’s!
(source: Tony Buzan, Head Strong 2001) |
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| Your brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe!
(source: Tony Buzan, Head Strong 2001) |
If you could harness the power used by your brain, you could power as a 10-watt light bulb |
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| 100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain 1,000 to 10,000 = the number of synapses for each neuron in your brain 100 billion = the number of neurons in your brain |
When you were born, your brain weighed about 350-400g and you had almost all the brain cells you will ever have. In fact, your brain was closer to its full adult size than any other organ in your body!
And……that your brain stopped growing at age 18 |
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| All of your “thinking” is done by electricity and chemicals | Mind over Matter ~ studies show that 50-70% of visits to the doctor for physical ailments are caused by psychological reasons. |