feed your brain!

• romantic love, passion, and romantic rejection are found in same area of brain as addiction, and when                       triggered, release same neurochemicals and produce same results as person in cocaine  withdrawal.                                                                                                     
  
• the Human Brain Project (HBP) is a global collaborative effort launched by the European Commission to              address fundamental issues in future neuroscience, medicine and computing in order to understand the               human brain and its diseases.
  
• the average human brain weighs 3 lbs, accounts for 2% of total body weight, is 140 mm wide, 167 mm                          long,  93 mm high, contains 100 billion neurons and has a total surface area of 2500 sq. cm.
  
• during the 1st month of a life a baby will increase the synaptic growth of their brain from 50 million                                     to  1  quadrillion new connections (do you know how many zero's in a quadrillion?!?).
  
• chronic and/or traumatic stress can shrink the size of your hippocampus. Want to reverse/increase memory?  Regular exercise, intense learning, antidepressants - the trifecta of hippocampal brain health.

• we have 'mirror neurons' in the frontal lobe of our brain that mimic movement & feeling.  When watching    streaming video our mirror neurons light up
  
• those that meditate have larger brain area in the hippocampus, the thalamus, and the inferior                                  temporal lobe than non-meditators
  
• neurolaw is a new field of study that reflects how recent developments in neuroscience impact                                       court proceedings, rulings and sentencing
  
• childhood abuse lowers the amount of grey matter in the prefrontal cortex
  
• learning is to the brain what weight lifting is to the body.