Fun Facts!
There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
- If we lined up all the neurons in our body it would be around 600 miles long.
- There are 100 billion neurons in your brain alone.
- A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times during the course of its first year.
- The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
- A New born baby loses about half of their nerve cells before they are born.
- As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.
- There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.
- The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cm.
- The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.
- An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.
- An average adult female brain is about 1275 grams.
- Only four percent of the brain's cells work while the remaining cells are kept in reserve.
- Neurons do not under go mitosis
- Neurons are the largest cells in the human body. (They can be up to 3 feet long!)
- The Nervous System can transmit impulses as fast as 100 meters per second.
- Potassium and sodium ions are vital to the proper functioning of the Nervous System.
- If we lined up all the neurons in our body it would be around 600 miles long.
- There are 100 billion neurons in your brain alone.
- A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times during the course of its first year.
- The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
- A New born baby loses about half of their nerve cells before they are born.
- As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.
- There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.
- The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cm.
- The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.
- An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.
- An average adult female brain is about 1275 grams.
- Only four percent of the brain's cells work while the remaining cells are kept in reserve.
- Neurons do not under go mitosis
- Neurons are the largest cells in the human body. (They can be up to 3 feet long!)
- The Nervous System can transmit impulses as fast as 100 meters per second.
- Potassium and sodium ions are vital to the proper functioning of the Nervous System.