When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day - shrinking the brain .25% each year.
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The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight (about 1.4 kilograms).
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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