Your Mind-Bending Brain and Networking Nervous System
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Neurons are ON specialized cells that make up your brain and nervous system CONTENTS 4 YOUR MIND BENDING BRAIN PARTS OF YOUR BRAIN GROWING A BRAIN 10 LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE 12 HIGH SPEED BRAIN WORK 14 YOUR BLINKING BRAIN 16 THE BODY S HARD DRIVE SWEET DREAMS Brain tissue is made of millions of neuron cells connected together 20 YOUR EMOTIONAL BRAIN 22 YOUR SUPER SENSES 24 SIGHT AND SOUND 26 SMELL AND TASTE Your brain is the main organ in your nervous IT 28 MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING 30 BRAINY WORDS system FOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN 31 32 INDEX Your nervous system runs through your whole WWII body and allows you to feel and
JOE MIND BENDING BRAIN BRILLIANT BODY FACT Your brain makes up just about 2 of your body weight but it's so energy and oxygen hungry that while you're awake it demands 20 of your body's supplies Your amazing brain generates enough electricity on its own to power a lightbulb So what does your brain kinds of information AA actually do such as where you left your phone or the date of The simple answer is your brain is in charge of your mother's birthday everything Using the nervous system it sends messages to make sure you keep breathing Pieces of the brain your heart keeps beating your stomach The brain is divided into several areas each processes food it's possible to walk talk of which has its own job to do One important touch your nose with your fingertip while division is between the right and left sides your eyes are shut and much more Weirdly the right side of Your brain is also the brain controls the a storehouse for left side of the body and vice versa People with memory It lets you recognize people's special abilities often faces and understands have special brains their expressions to communicate what mood too For example the math and physics portions of Albert they are in It remembers language and stores all Einstein's brain were Albert Einstein
skull bones protect the brain OOK CLOSER rom impact THE BRAIN cerebrum the largest part of the brain meninges ers of matter that cushion and protect the brain DID YOU KNOW A headache pain in the b is not a spinal cord carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body lere rain pa sptors pa are no In rece in the brai in so it cannot feel in Headaches are actually caused by pain in tissue that surrounds the bi a third larger than the average brain Taxi drivers in London England who have to rain remember every street in the huge city often have a bigger than average hippocampus the part of the brain associated with memory see page 17 DON T TRY THIS AT HOME Still working while you sleep Brain surgery has a long history archaeologists have found evidence of crude brain operations being done over 4 000 years ago While you are asleep your brain continues with its background maintenance functions such as breathing But it has a lot of spare capacity some of which it seems to use for dreams Everyone dreams but not everyone remembers them Not everyone dreams in The operation known as trepanning seems likely to have been an extreme attempt to cure REALLY bad headaches It was done by drilling a hole into the skull to try to relieve pressure on the brain Ouch color either About 12 of us dream in black and white
