Brain Facts 

1. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression has men in the United States.

2. The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

3. From all the oxygen that a human with 20% goes to the brain.

4. people who ride on roller coaster have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

5. Once human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The sales will never be replaced.

6. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, wants the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

7. Woman from Berlin Germany had 3,110 Gallstones taken out of of her Gall bladder.

8. In America, the most common mental illnesses is Anxiety disorders.

9. Your brain is 80% water.

10. Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.

11. If all the body's nerves were joined end to end they would stretch about 100 kilometre.

12. A single nerve single lasted 1/7ooth of a second.

13. Most nerve fibers can carry up to 300 signals per second.

14. The nerve fibers in the human body are less than 1/1000th of 1 millimetre wide.

15. The average adult brain has more than 100 billion Nerve cells.

16. The outer layer or cortex of the brain, spread out flat, would cover the area of pillowcase.

17. The brain has no senses to touch or pain. During surgery, it cannot feel the surgeon's cutting scalpels or laser beams.

18. The adult human brain weight about 3 pound (1,300 – 1,400g).

19. The adult human brain is about 2% of the total body weight.

20. The elephant brain weight about 6,000 g.

21. The cat brain weights about 30 g.

22. Average human brain is 140 mm wide, 167 mm long and 93 mm high.

23. The Octopus plane has about 300 million neutrons.

24. The total surface area of the cerebral cortex is about 2,500 sq cm(~2.5 ft).

25. Unconsciousness will occur after 8/10 seconds after loss of blood supply to the Brain.

26. Neurons multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons/minute during early pregnancy.

27. The weight of an adult human cell volume is 150 g.