52 Brain FactsDid You Know?Popular Articles Kate Fehlhaber March 13, 2017June 30, 2017 10 Brain Facts, 52 Brain Facts, BAW, Brain Awareness Week, Interviews, Videos, Weird Animal Brains It’s Brain Awareness Week! Every March, Brain Awareness Week (BAW, for short) unifies the world in celebration of the brain and mind! In order to raise awareness about how the brain works, what neuroscientists… Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons August 22, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Analyze, Architecture, Awesome, Brain, Communicate, Control, Cool, Cortex, Evolution, Evolve, Fact, Knowing Neurons, language, Large, Logical, Myth, Neocortex, Rainbow, SciArt, SciComm Myth or Fact? One region of the brain sets us humans apart from other species. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons August 15, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Action Potential, Awesome, Brain, Connective tissue, Cool, Fact, Feel, Ion, Ions, Myth, Nerve, Nervous System, Pacinian corpuscle, Pacinian corpuscles, Pressue, Sodium, Spike, Touch, Vibration Myth or Fact? Your vibrating cell phone helps release sodium ions. … Read More
52 Brain FactsSleep knowingneurons August 8, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Paralysis, REM, Sleep Myth or Fact? Your brain paralyzes your body when you sleep. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons August 1, 2016June 5, 2019 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Deceit, Fact, Honest, Honesty, Korsakoff, Lie, Psychiatry, True, Truth Myth or Fact? The Brain Can Form Honest Lies … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons July 25, 2016June 5, 2019 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Cortex, Heart, Heartbeat, Research, RomCom Myth or Fact? The Brain Doesn’t Listen to the Heart … Read More
52 Brain FactsSensation and Perception knowingneurons July 18, 2016June 5, 2019 52 Brain Facts, Audition, auditory, Bat, Blind, Cane, Click, Cortex, Echolocation, Hear, Hearing, Location, Navigate, Sense, Sight, Sound, Tap, Vision, Whale Myth or Fact? Some People Can Use Echolocation … Read More
52 Brain FactsNeuroscience Technologies knowingneurons July 11, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, CLARITY, clear, Fat, Hydrogel, Imaging, Lipid, Opaque, see-through, Technique Myth or Fact? It is possible to make the whole brain transparent. … Read More
52 Brain FactsSleep knowingneurons July 4, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, FFI, gene, Insomnia, Misfolded, mutation, Neurons, Prion, Protein, Sleep, Thalamus Myth or Fact? A misfolded protein can cause you to never sleep again. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons June 27, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Addiction, Brain, Cocaine, Dopamine, Drug Abuse, Drugs, Function, Hole, neurotransmitter, Reward, Trauma Myth or Fact? Drug abuse can put holes in your brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons June 20, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Blood, Blood-brain barrier, Brain, Immune, Lymphatic, Meninges, Microscope, Microscopy, Vessels Myth or Fact? The brain is completely separated from the body’s immune network. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons June 13, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Animal, Blue, Brain, Brainbow, connectome, Cool, Engineer, Engineering, Fact, Fluorescent, gene, genetic, Green, Image, Mice, Modification, Modified, Mouse, Rainbow, Red Myth or Fact? Neurons can be genetically engineered to come in all colors of the rainbow. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons June 6, 2016June 30, 2017 Asleep, Awake, Brain, Conscious, Consciousness, Giulio Tononi, Integrated Information Theory, Math, Mathematical, Phi, Sleep, State Myth or Fact? A single number can soon quantify your level of consciousness. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons May 30, 2016June 30, 2017 52 Brain Facts, Blueberries, Brain, Communication, Health, Learning, Memory, Motor control, stress, Weak Myth or Fact? Eating blueberries is good for your brain. … Read More
52 Brain FactsLearning and Memory knowingneurons May 23, 2016June 30, 2017 Closet, Cortex, Forget, Hippocampus, Learning, Memory, Remember, Space Myth or Fact? Forgetting is a ‘technical snag’ in the brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons May 16, 2016June 11, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Face, Face Blindness, Fact, FFA, Fusiform face area, Head, Injury, Prosopagnosia, Recognition, Recognize, stroke Myth or Fact? Everyone can mentally “tag” their friends. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons May 9, 2016June 4, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Benefit, Brain, Dread, glucocorticoid, Hippocampus, Hormone, Hypothalamus, LTP, Memory, Neuroscience, Plasticity, Risk, Roller coaster, stress, Synapse, Time Myth or Fact? A little stress is good for the brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons May 2, 2016May 3, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Brain, C. elegans, Caenorhabditis elegans, connectivity, connectome, Diagram, Map, nematode, Neuron, Synapse, worm Myth or Fact? The nematode is the only organism with a complete neuronal map. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons April 25, 2016May 3, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Blood, Brain, Degradation, Disposal, Elimination, Enzyme, Garbage, Neurodegenerative disease, Neuroscience, Waste Myth or Fact? Your brain has a waste disposal system. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons April 18, 2016May 3, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Cortex, Folding Myth or Fact? Cortical folding is a lot like crumpling paper. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons April 11, 2016April 28, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Disorder, Hallucination, Neuroscience, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Symptom Myth or Fact? Having multiple personalities is a hallmark of schizophrenia. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons April 4, 2016January 18, 2017 52 Brain Facts, ASD, Autism, Brain, CDC, Center for Disease Control, Falsified Data, measles-mumps-rubella, Misinformation, MMR, Myth, Vaccination, Vaccine Myth or Fact? Vaccines cause autism. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons March 28, 2016April 3, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Biology, Brain, Chromosome, Disease, DNA, gene, Genetics, Manhattan, Method, Neuroscience, Plot, Scatter, Science, Significance, Skyline, SNP, Trait, Value Myth or Fact? When geneticists talk about Manhattan, they don’t mean NYC. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons March 21, 2016March 27, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Dyslexia, Grapheme, language, Letter, Phoneme, Sound Myth or Fact? Dyslexia varies across different languages. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons March 14, 2016March 13, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Day Dream, Dreaming, hypnagogic hallucination, Narcolepsy, Sleep Myth or Fact? We only dream when we sleep. … Read More
52 Brain FactsPopular Articles knowingneurons March 7, 2016March 23, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Frontal lobe, Olfaction, olfactory, Olfactory Bulb, Perception, Psychopath, Smell Myth or Fact? Many psychopaths have a poor sense of smell. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons February 29, 2016March 6, 2016 Brain, Fiber, Information, myelin, Neuron, Senses, Speed, Unmyelinated Myth or Fact? Information travels at one speed in your brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 52 Brain Facts, bitter, Bitterness, Chocolate, Kale, TAS2R38, taste Myth or Fact? Everyone perceives bitter taste the same way. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons February 17, 2016February 17, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Asparagus, Baby, Broccoli, Development, Fetal, Fetus, Folic Acid, Green, Neuroscience, Pregnancy, Pregnant, Spinach Myth or Fact? Folic acid is important for embryonic brain development. … Read More
52 Brain FactsPopular Articles knowingneurons February 8, 2016March 23, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Body, Brain, Fact, Fat, Organ Myth or Fact? The brain is the fattest organ in the body. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons February 1, 2016February 10, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Five, Magnet, Magnetic, Magnetoreception, Navigation, Senses Myth or Fact? All animals have only five senses. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons January 25, 2016February 10, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Cerebral, Consciousness, Corpus callosum, Hemisphere, Split, Split brain Myth or Fact? Splitting the brain results in two largely independent streams of consciousness. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons January 18, 2016February 7, 2016 50%, 52 Brain Facts, 98%, Body, Brain, complex, Development, DNA, genes, Knowing Neurons, Organization Myth or Fact? 10% of your genes describe the organization of the brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons January 11, 2016February 11, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Big, Brain, Knowing Neurons, Size Myth or Fact? Bigger brains are smarter brains. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons January 4, 2016February 3, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Blind, Blind spot, Brain, Eye, Nerve, Optic nerve, Retina Myth or Fact? Blind spots do not occur in healthy eyes. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons December 28, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Cortex, Olfaction, olfactory, Relay, Senses, Smell, Stopover, Thalamus Myth or Fact? All human senses take the most direct route possible from sensory neurons to the cortex. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons December 21, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Earth, myelin, Neuroscience Myth or Fact? An adult brain has enough myelin to stretch from New York to Tokyo. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons December 14, 2015March 22, 2016 52 Brain Facts, Axon, Hunger, Marijuana, neurotransmitter, Receptor, Retrograde, Synapse, THC Myth or fact? Some neurotransmitters travel backwards across the synapse. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons December 7, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Autonomous, Intelligence, Knowing Neurons, Nervous, Octopus, Tool Myth or fact? A highly centralized nervous system is necessary for intelligent behaviors. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons November 30, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Past, Perception, Time, Vision Myth or Fact? Axonal conduction delays and processing time prevent us from experiencing the world in "real time." … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons November 23, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Breathe, Education, Energy, Fact, Myth, Neuroscience, Oxygen Myth or Fact? The brain's energy consumption is small compared to other organs. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons November 16, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Connection, Development, Size, Synapse Myth or Fact? Synapses increase twentyfold during the first month of life. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons November 9, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Hemisphere, Left, Right Myth or Fact? Artists use their right brain significantly more than their left brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons November 2, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Adenosine, Awake, Caffeine, Receptor, Sleep Myth or Fact? The mechanism by which caffeine keeps humans awake is a mystery. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons October 26, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Development, Inside-out, Layers, Neurodevelopment, Trifle Myth or Fact? The brain forms inside-out. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons October 19, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Gut, neurotransmitter, serotonin Myth or Fact? The neurotransmitter serotonin is solely located in the brain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons October 12, 2015 52 Brain Facts, BBB, Blood-brain barrier, Bouncer, Drug Myth or Fact? The brain is impenetrable to many important drugs. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons October 5, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Dura, Headache, Nociception, Nociceptor, Pain, Pia, Receptor, Skull Myth or Fact? Cutting into the brain of an awake patient directly results in agonizing pain. … Read More
52 Brain Facts knowingneurons September 28, 2015 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Cerebellum, Motor, Movement, Walk Myth or Fact? The brain region with the most neurons is responsible for motor coordination. … Read More
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