PSYO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mirror Neuron, Sensory Neuron, Neuroglia
25 Oct 2016
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*this lecture is not included in the midterm on monday* The adult brain is 2% of your total body weight but use 20% of your body"s energy. The energy used by the brain is enough to light a 25 watt bulb. More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than by all the telephones in the world. Estimated 70,000 thoughts that the human brain produces on an average day. After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent in mass each year. 89. 06% of people report writing normally writing with their right hand, 10. 6% with their left. The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. The slowest speed at which information travels between neurons is 416 km/h. The living brain is red in colour. Alcohol does not kill brain cells, just damages them. Neurons cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform information- processing tasks.
