Sunday, May 17, 2009

Brain - Amazing facts

Brain user 20% of body's oxygen and blood supply.

At any time brain can store about 7 facts in short term memory.

Brain needs continuous supply of oxygen. A 10 minute loss of oxygen will usually cause significant neural damage.

Human brain can store about 100 trillion bits in a period of 70 years.
Human brain weight an average of a little over three pounds me 1.36 kg

Your brain have about 100 billion neurons

Neurons are longest cells in our body measures 1.2 m long.

Approximately 85,000 neocortical neurons are lost each day in your brain.

Every thought is actually a series of chemical processes in brain.