Brain – Statistics – Brief Article – Statistical Data Included
100 billion neurons in the human brain
30 percent of 80-year-olds performed as well as young adults on cognitive tests
85 percent of the brain comprises the cerebral cortex
32 MILLION number of years it would take to count each synapse in the human brain at a rate of one synapse per second
SOURCES: BrainStat; Thinkquest; Mozart’s Brain and the lighter Pilot (Harmony Books, 2001)
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