Explore Amazing Secrets And Facts About The Brain And Spinal Cord.

The human brain is made up of sixty percent fat.

Research made found out that the brain has an unlimited storage capacity.

A piece of brain tissue the size of a grain of sand contains 100,000 neurons and 1 billion synapses.

The brain can create an enough electricity to power a light bulb.

Your brain keeps developing until about age 25.

75% of the brain is made up of water; this means dehydration can severely affect it.

The information between neurons in your brain move at different speeds. The fastest of these speeds is about 250 mph.

Though it interprets pain for virtually every organ in the body, the brain is incapable of feeling pain itself.

Our brain gets smaller as we get older.

Eyewitness accounts of criminal suspects is mostly only about 50 percent accurate because it is hard for the brain to remember the details of someone unfamiliar.

The brain makes up about 2% of the entire body weight.

Your Spine stops growing at age four.

The Spinal Cord has a memory for pain. This is the result of a molecule thought to be the precursor to memory, known as PKMzeta.

The Spinal Cord is a main hub of nerves with the peripheral nervous system. It consists of 43 pairs of sensory and motor nerves, connecting the brain and spinal cord to the other parts of the body.

The Spinal Cord is about 45 centimeters long on average. For men it can reach a length of 70 centimeters, while for women it can reach 60 centimeters

Humans have been performing brain surgeries as far back as the stone age.

The brain uses 20 percent of the entire oxygen and blood in the body.

Without your Spinal Cord you would be unable to breath, move, and sneeze.

The Spine contains over 120 muscles, around 220 individual ligaments and 100 joints. It weighs around 35 grams.

The Spinal Cord is S-shaped and not straight; this is what makes walking possible.