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Brainoids

Did you know that….

  1. During every minute of the nine months of pregnancy the brain gains a quarter of a million brain cells?
  2. The brain is genetically hard wired to produce 100 billion neurons?
  3. A child is born with twice as many brain cells as there are in the adult brain?
  4. Between 14 and 18 months old babies develop a sense of minds other than their own?
  5. Your brain is pre-programmed to develop particular skills and abilities at particular times? Most of these ‘sensitive periods’ occur before the age of five.?
  6. Between the ages of 6 and 13 you have a ‘growth spurt’ in the front of your brain in the area that is responsible for language skills?
  7. Boys and girls use different areas of the brain when responding to faces?
  8. If the language cortex is removed before puberty the brain is ‘plastic’ enough to compensate for the loss. Unfortunately this is not the case when the removal occurs after puberty?
  9. The brain is powered by glucose?
  10. Mental rehearsal of an activity uses very similar areas of the brain to actually doing it?
  11. Infants with the left hemisphere removed from their brain by the age of six months are indistinguishable in language facility by the age of 4?
  12. Neurotransmitters are made from the a combination of the 22 amino acids found in or synthesized from dietary protetin?
  13. The brain is 75% water?
  14. Your memory is consolidated by deep, ‘rapid eye movement’ sleep?
  15. The adult brain represents 2% of total body weight and yet receives 16% of the total blood supply, and by weight 10 times as much as muscle tissue?
  16. By the age of 3 the brain is 80% of adult size, and by the age of 5 the brain is 90% of adult size?
  17. In adults 25% of the oxygen in the system is used by the brain, and 50% in younger children?
  18. After about six hours of unrelieved stress short term memory starts to disappear, and after about a week neural networks start to atrophy, and the hippocampus starts to show signs of ageing?
  19. When I stare at an object the right side of my brain processes information seen on the right side of both of my retinas, and the left side of my brain sees the information from the left side of both of my retinas?
  20. Women have up to 15% more brain cell density in their pre-fontal lobe (controls judgement, personality, planning and working memory). However greater density does not mean higher performance?

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