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52 Brain Facts

52 Brain Facts Did You Know? Popular Articles 

It’s Brain Awareness Week!

March 13, 2017June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 0 Comments 10 Brain Facts, 52 Brain Facts, BAW, Brain Awareness Week, Interviews, Videos, Weird Animal Brains
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 

Myth or Fact? One region of the brain sets us humans apart from other species.

August 22, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 3 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Analyze, Architecture, Awesome, Brain, Communicate, Control, Cool, Cortex, Evolution, Evolve, Fact, Knowing Neurons, language, Large, Logical, Myth, Neocortex, Rainbow, SciArt, SciComm
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Myth or Fact? Your vibrating cell phone helps release sodium ions.

August 15, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 2 Comments 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
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52 Brain Facts Sleep 

Myth or Fact? Your brain paralyzes your body when you sleep.

August 8, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Paralysis, REM, Sleep
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Myth or Fact? The Brain Can Form Honest Lies

August 1, 2016June 5, 2019 knowingneurons 3 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Deceit, Fact, Honest, Honesty, Korsakoff, Lie, Psychiatry, True, Truth
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Myth or Fact? The Brain Doesn’t Listen to the Heart

July 25, 2016June 5, 2019 knowingneurons 3 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Cortex, Heart, Heartbeat, Research, RomCom
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52 Brain Facts Sensation and Perception 

Myth or Fact? Some People Can Use Echolocation

July 18, 2016June 5, 2019 knowingneurons 1 Comment 52 Brain Facts, Audition, auditory, Bat, Blind, Cane, Click, Cortex, Echolocation, Hear, Hearing, Location, Navigate, Sense, Sight, Sound, Tap, Vision, Whale
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52 Brain Facts Neuroscience Technologies 

Myth or Fact? It is possible to make the whole brain transparent.

July 11, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment 52 Brain Facts, CLARITY, clear, Fat, Hydrogel, Imaging, Lipid, Opaque, see-through, Technique
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52 Brain Facts Sleep 

Myth or Fact? A misfolded protein can cause you to never sleep again.

July 4, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 0 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Brain, Disease, Fatal Familial Insomnia, FFI, gene, Insomnia, Misfolded, mutation, Neurons, Prion, Protein, Sleep, Thalamus
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Myth or Fact? Drug abuse can put holes in your brain.

June 27, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 4 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Addiction, Brain, Cocaine, Dopamine, Drug Abuse, Drugs, Function, Hole, neurotransmitter, Reward, Trauma
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Myth or Fact? The brain is completely separated from the body’s immune network.

June 20, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 1 Comment 52 Brain Facts, Blood, Blood-brain barrier, Brain, Immune, Lymphatic, Meninges, Microscope, Microscopy, Vessels
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Myth or Fact? Neurons can be genetically engineered to come in all colors of the rainbow.

June 13, 2016June 30, 2017 knowingneurons 2 Comments 52 Brain Facts, Animal, Blue, Brain, Brainbow, connectome, Cool, Engineer, Engineering, Fact, Fluorescent, gene, genetic, Green, Image, Mice, Modification, Modified, Mouse, Rainbow, Red
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