Quick naps not only improve your alertness, but they also help in decision making, creativity and sensory perception.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
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The human brain doesn't stop developing until about 25 years old.
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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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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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