Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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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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Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
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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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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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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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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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