The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g).
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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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Falling in love raises levels of nerve growth in a person's brain for about a year and can improve their memory.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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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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Starfish don't have brains.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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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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