Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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When you fall in love, that 'high' feeling is caused by a flood of dopamine that is similar to that of cocaine.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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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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An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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