Most interesting facts about brain

MOST INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BRAIN

1. About 75 percent of the brain is made up of water. This means that dehydration, even in small amounts, can have a negative effect on the brain functions.

2.The human brain will grow three times its size in the first year of life. It continues to grow until you’re about 18 years old.

3.Headaches are caused by a chemical reaction in your brain combined with the muscles and nerves of your neck and head.

4. It is a myth that humans only use 10 percent of our brain. We actually use all of it. We’re even using more than 10 percent when we sleep.

5.Dreams are believed to be a combination of imagination, phycological factors, and neurological factors. They prove that your brain is working even when you are sleeping.

6.The brain can’t feel pain. It interprets pain signals sent to it, but it does not feel pain.

7.The human brain begins to lose some memory abilities as well as some cognitive skills by your late 20s.

8.The type of love that's cultivated through the practice of loving-kindness meditation activates the brain's empathy and emotion-processing centers, while also reducing activity in brain areas associated with self-focused thought.

9.Loving-kindness meditation also gets us in touch with our feelings by increasing gray matter volume in brain areas associated with emotion processing.

10.Dopamine is the brain's “motivation molecule” and an integral part of the pleasure-reward system. ... Interestingly, you can further increase dopamine by listening to a playlist that's being shuffled.

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