Brain facts

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How much does the average human brain weigh?

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The human brain weighs about 1.4.

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What percentage of a day's calories does the human brain consume?

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Every day the brain consumes about 20 - 30 % of the body's calories.

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Which side of the brain is responsible for our creativity?

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The right side of the brain is the center of creativity, intuition, imagination and movement.

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How many cells does the human brain have?

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The human brain has 10 billion nerve cells and over 50 billion other cells.

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What are the three layers of the human brain?

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The human brain consists of three layers: The reptilian brain, the mammalian brain, and the human brain.

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What links the right and the left side of the brain? What does it do?

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The corpus callosum: this is like a telephone exchange. It carries millons of messages between the two sides of the brain.

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How old are we when our brains are fully mature?

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Our brains are fully mature when we turn to twenty-five.

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What happens to the frontal lobes of the brain during our early teens?

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The frontal lobes become overcrowded with too many synapses.