Top 10 Things You Should Know About Your Brain
- When you’re sleeping, your brain stays awake.
- The brain itself cannot feel pain? Headache pain is felt in the tissues, nerves and blood vessels surrounding the brain.
- Most people assume that vision is what your eye sees and reports to your brain. Actually, the brain adds a great deal to the report it gets from the eye; much what you see is "made up" by the brain.
- A baby’s brain triples its size in the first year of life.
- Men’s brains are on the average 9% bigger than women’s brains. This does not mean men are smarter than women!
- The diameter of an individual brain neuron is four microns. This means that 30,000 neurons could fit on the head of a pin.
- Even one night without sleep can create a deficit in your ability to form new memories.
- If you have a condition known as “synesthesia,” your brain perceives letters or numbers as having colors.
- An elephant’s brain weighs about 13 pounds, or about 10 pounds more than yours.
- Chances are that Albert Einstein's brain was smaller than yours, but don’t get too excited; it’s only because he was physically smaller than average.