Brain Facts

Tags: Napping, Sleep, Brain, Interesting, Health, Human Body

Fact Page: Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 19:10:03
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Chocolate, Kissing, Kiss, Passion, Heart, Brain, Health, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:56:22
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

University of Pittsburg and University of California studied about 16,000 women and reported the following in 2007: curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children! Women should have fat in their hips, rather than their waist, because hip fat is usually high on omega-3 fatty acids (fat that develop the brain), while waist fat is high on omega-6 fats that do not develop the brain.

Tags: Curves, Hips, Women, Woman, Intelligence, Pregnancy, Children, Smart, IQ, Girl, Body, Brain

Fact Page: Curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children.
Date Added: 2011-09-28 07:13:23
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Love, Romance, Personality, Psychology, Interesting, Brain

Fact Page: When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
Date Added: 2011-08-25 13:11:46
Fact Category: Interesting Fact

Tags: Consciousness, Blood, Brain

Fact Page: 10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
Date Added: 2011-08-17 08:31:49
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Human, Brain, Energy, Light Bulb, Body, Human Body

Fact Page: The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
Date Added: 2011-06-19 10:43:12
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Human, Brain, Weight, Body, Human Body

Fact Page: The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
Date Added: 2011-04-26 09:30:56
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Cat, Brain, Animal, Weight

Fact Page: The cat brain weighs about 30g.
Date Added: 2011-04-26 09:29:52
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Brain, Human Body, Body, Neuron, Age, Aging

Fact Page: After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
Date Added: 2011-04-02 10:38:20
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Memory, Brain, Blueberry, Juice, Blueberry Juice

Fact Page: Blueberry juice boosts memory.
Date Added: 2011-02-08 20:02:03
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.

Tags: Brain, Human, Human Brain, Human Body

Fact Page: The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
Date Added: 2011-01-06 13:35:50
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Octopus, Brain, Neuron, Average

Fact Page: On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
Date Added: 2010-11-28 08:55:39
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Ant, Ants, Brain, Brain Cells, Colony

Fact Page: An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
Date Added: 2010-06-22 17:58:04
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Neanderthal, Brain

Fact Page: The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
Date Added: 2010-02-13 13:10:38
Fact Category: Science Fact