Stunning-facts-about-the-brain

1. It has been established that physical activity is the key to the life expectancy of a person and his brain. The longer active, many and regularly working elderly people, the more they have the chance to live to a very deep old age in their right mind with good memory.

2. The benefits of sports have long been questioned. But only now scientists have found the explanation: sports loads stimulate the germination of new cells in the hippocampus and help to survive the neurons just born.

3. Diets and starvation, on the contrary, have a negative effect on the brain. As a consequence, he is forced to "eat" himself.

4. Failure our brain feels like physical pain.

5. The brain of children processes up to half of all glucose present in the body. To fill it up, the child is forced to sleep a lot.

6. On average, it takes six minutes for the brain to react to the alcohol taken by the body.

7. When a person begins to study something new, the structure of the brain begins to change. Semax and Phenotropil, Cogitum and Cerebrolysin can fast this process.

8. The brain of a child perceives scenes of cruelty in his own family as harmful as the war affects the soldier's brain.

9. Those people who constantly want to sleep and rest, quickly come atrophy of the brain.

10. The brain of any person alone generates more electrical impulses per day than all the telephones in the world.

11. Poverty, unfortunately, can cause negative disturbances in the work of the adolescent brain. The changing activity of the gene, which affects the amygdala, leads to the development of clinical depression. In turn, having a history of depression, representatives of poor families are more likely to be affected by affective disorders.

12. The figure of activity of the temporomandibular cortex of the right hemisphere of the brain can clearly tell the specialist whether a particular person has the ability to learn foreign languages. Moreover, in the plans of scientists - the creation of an instrument that could support a favorable for this ability pattern of activity.

13. By stimulating a certain part of the brain, you can become more self-confident.

14. To simulate only one second of human brain activity, the fourth supercomputer in the world was forced to work for 40 minutes.

15. The brain under the influence of alcohol loses the ability to remember. It is this feature of the brain, and not the alcohol itself, that leads to the fact that a drunk does not recognize loved ones.

16. Studying the brain activity of men and women, scientists were convinced that they still can not think or act in the same way. A pair of men acts more efficiently and quickly, a pair of women - on the contrary. So far, no explanation has been found for this.

17. The smartest children are born when the birth takes place at the 41st week of pregnancy.

18. Every minute, 75% of the blood in the human body flows through the vessels of the brain.

19. The brain consumes somewhere 20% of the total oxygen intake and the same amount - from all the calories it receives.

20. 90% of the information enters the human brain through vision.

So take care of your eyesight, work on your physical preparation, improve the well-being and microclimate of your family and continue to actively develop your incredible, mysterious, functional, amazingly efficient brain!