When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Blueberry juice boosts memory.
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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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The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
193
The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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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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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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