The Brain Machine :
SOME AMAZING INFORMATION ABOUT OUR BRAIN :-
Weight : 1400g
Length : 167mm
Width : 140mm
Height : 73mm
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● The brain contains 100 billion neurones that continuously send, read and analyze electrical impulses. The number of glial cells are more than that.
● The length of brain-neurones linked together : 3,200,000 km. Myelinated neurones in the brain : 180,000 km.
● The brain has memory power approx. 500 to 1000 TB (1 TB = 1000 GB).
● The brain receives electrical impulses from 3 trillion neurones in the body.
● The brain has 30 billion working stations and trillions of synapses to perform various types of functions.
● Bio-electricity generated in brain neurones is equal in total to that generated from a 120 volt battery.
● There are 250 million fibres in 6.2 sq cm area in brain called Corpus Collosum.
● The brain can identify 10,000 types of smell and 8 million colours.
● In the brain 10,000 specific chemical reactions occurs every second.
● The brain controls a huge array of physiological activities like regulated and timed secretion of 10,000 enzymes, hundreds of hormones etc.
● Every second the brain is busy with millions of activities like data analysis, processing, decision-making, maintaining vital physical activities by sending messages with automatic neurones, etc.
