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- Christopher Moyer
Reviews some of the jaw-dropping numbers pertaining to the human brain.
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Transcript
What is the most amazing structure in nature? There could be many answers, but
you would be hard-pressed to come up with something more amazing than the human
brain. Consisting largely of two types of cells – neurons, which are specialized cells that
communicate with each other by rapidly sending and receiving signals, and glial cells,
which primarily support the structure and function of those neurons – your brain
automatically regulates the bodily processes that keep you alive, preserves your
memories, and enables you to be conscious.
While you were still in the womb, your brain was furiously assembling itself,
adding up to a quarter million neurons each second. It needs to grow at this rate if it is
ever going to reach the astronomical total of 100 billion neurons that constitute an adult
brain. Each of these neurons is connected to hundreds or thousands of others by
microscopic gaps...
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