Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same place in your brain as aggression.
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Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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