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FOR KIDS - HOW DOES MY BRAIN WORK ? (New page opens with this link)
Source: KidsHealth www.KidsHealth.com

How do you remember the way to your friend's house? Why do your eyes blink without you ever thinking about it? Where do dreams come from? Your brain is the one responsible for these things and a whole lot more. Your brain is the boss of your body. It runs the show by controlling just about everything you do. ...more...

 

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK ? (New page opens with this link)
By Sandra Blakeslee,
Source: © New York TimesPublished: November 11, 2003

In the continuing effort to understand the human brain, the mysteries keep piling up. Consider what scientists are up against. Stretched flat, the human neocortex -- the center of our higher mental functions -- is about the size and thickness of a formal dinner napkin.

With 100 billion cells, each with 1,000 to 10,000 synapses, the neocortex makes roughly 100 trillion connections and contains 300 million feet of wiring packed with other tissue into a one-and-a-half-quart volume in the brain. ...more...