What do you think? Brain/thinking/thoughts?

Your brain consists of 100 million neurons

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Your brain consists of 100 billion neurons.

Your brain is about 2 percent of your total body weight but uses 40% of your bodies energy

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• False

Answer explanation

Your brain is about 2 % of your body weight but uses 20% of body's energy

Because your brain shuts off the visual cortex signal very briefly every time your eyes move, you're blind for two hours a day

• True

• False

The human brain is the fattiest organ in the body

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• False

Answer explanation

The human brain is the fattiest organ in the body and may consist of at least 60% fat.

The brain is made up of about 60% water.

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• False

An average human brain weighs 1.3kg

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• False

Your brain can survive without oxygen for four to six minutes before it starts to die

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• False

1000 to 10000 = the number of synapses for each neuron in your brain

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• False

Each person has far fewer brain cells at birth than in adulthood

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• False

Answer explanation

Each person has about the same number of brain cells at births as in adulthood, but those cells grow, reaching maximum size about age 6.

A newborn's brain triples its size in the first year of life

• True

• False