When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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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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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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Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
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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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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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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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