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 brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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Music has the ability to repair brain damage and return lost memories.
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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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When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything; your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
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The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
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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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