10 Brain Facts

Whatever we do, think and see is all due to the brain’s work. All the five senses of humans depend on the brain to work. All the voluntary and involuntary actions performed by the body are also due to the functioning and order of brain. This is not it; our conscious and subconscious also depend on the brain. So brain is what we are, if the brain stops working we will die in no time. This article you are reading at the moment is also due to your brain. The other facts which you will see in the next line will also be seen and understand by your brain.

1. The Energy Used By Brain

Brain uses energy in form of current to send and receive messages. The total energy used by brain is 12 watts per day. This is as much as used by the bulb of the fridge. But when compared to the body, it uses 1/6th part of total energy used by the body.

2. Stress

Frequent stress can damage the brain health. it could damage the memory. Doctors say that the extensive and hard work hours, shifts in work hours and the people who travel across different time zones often can have a memory loss.

3. Noise And Cell Phone

It becomes harder to try to talk on the cell phone while sitting in the noisy room. It is due to the fact that brain mixes the noise with the voice on the phone and the identification of the meaning full voice becomes difficult. But covering the mouth piece with hand will solve this problem.

4. Multitasking

Our brain is a natural most powerful multitasking machine. There is no match to nature’s creation. To enhance the ability of the multitasking of the brain, do play video games, especially the action video games.

5. The Joke Center

Our brain has an area reserved for jokes. It’s on the front right side of our brain. People with damaged front side of the brain will never be able to understand the jokes.

6. The Sequences

Our brain has memory sequences of those things we do daily or most often. This is why we can recall the things we do often very fast, because there are other memories which strengthen those sequences. That is the reason we often recall those annoying songs that we hate.

7. Light And Sneeze

When you go to bright sun light, you will most probably sneeze. This is because our brain sends an irritant which turns into sneezing. This could be triggered due to many other unexpected events.

8. Yawing

Yawing is the process that wakes us up. When we get up, we yawn, this brings the huge amount of oxygen into our lungs that wake us completely.

9. Growth

Our brain grows till we are 18 years old. When we reach this age, our brain becomes mature and after this brain does not grow any more.

10. Neurons

Our body receives and gets instructions through the nerves. There are 100 billion neurons in the brain that pass the message to the nerves through current.