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Botescu Ana Maria
University of Medicine and Pharmacy
"Iuliu Hatieganu"
Cluj Napoca
Your brain is 73% water.
It takes only 2% dehydration to affect your attention, memory and other cognitive skills.
Ninety minutes of sweating can temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging does.
Alan Glynn is an Irish writer born in 1960 in Dublin.
He studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin.
Eddie Spinola is a copywriter at a small publishing house in New York City. He has been trying for months to finish wirting a book, but without succes.
The typical brain represents about 2% of the body’s total weight, but uses 20% of its total energy and oxygen intake.
Knowing he is soon facing death from withdrawal, he chooses to live his last moments in a motel up north.
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He starts using an experimental drug called MDT-48 which increases the functional capacity of the brain to 100%.
After trying desperately to find a steady supplier for the drug, Eddie receives a phone call and finds out that he had been under surveillance all along, and a "guinea pig" in secret drug clinical trial.
The pathologist who performed Einstein’s autopsy kept the brain in a jar in his basement for 40 years.
Eventually, he made a cross-country trip with the brain in a Tupperware container to deliver it to Einstein’s granddaughter.
Eddie finishes his book and starts making a lot of money from the stock market.
After using MDT intensively without eating or sleeping, Eddie experiences panick attacks and black-outs.
No one knows for sure, but the latest estimate is that our brains contain roughly 86 billion brain cells.
A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses, all communicating with each other.
Twenty-five percent of the
body’s cholesterol resides
within the brain.
Cholesterol is an integral part of
every brain cell.
Without adequate cholesterol,
brain cells die.
Your brain generates about 12-25 watts of electricity.
This is enough to power a low-wattage LED light.
There’s a reason the brain has been called a “random thought generator.”
The average brain is believed to generate up to 50,000 thoughts
per day.
THE HUMAN BRAIN
Some scientists believe zombies could actually be created.
They think it’s possible that a mutated virus or parasites could attack the brain and rapidly spread throughout large populations, essentially causing a “zombie apocalypse.”
The brains of introverts and extroverts are measurably different.
MRIs reveal that the dopamine reward network is more active in the brains of extroverts while introverts’ brains have more gray matter.