The brain needs no introduction
The brain is simply and paradoxically complicatedly amazing - the more I learn about it, the more amazed I become. I rather like how one of the worlds most foremost neuroanatomists Marian Cleeves Diamond describes the brain "It is the most complex mass of protoplasm on Earth, and perhaps in our galaxy. A simple essay can only begin to describe its magnificence on the one hand and its malice on the other."Some facts and stats about the brain you may not have known:
- Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body
- It's the same consistency as tofu and about 60% of it is fat
- When awake the brain produces enough electricity to power a small bulb
- There are over 100k miles of blood vessels in the brain!
- Aristotle mistakenly thought that the functions of the brain actually took place in the heart
