5 curiosities about your brain

Our brain is a box of mysteries, a sophisticated organ that we like to learn every day to delve into its mysteries, the mechanisms that have allowed our evolution to the other species. Surely day by day scientists will bring us more data and knowledge about it, but today, from our space, we are going to offer you five simple curiosities that surely you will love to know. Are your neurons ready? Let's go there…

1. Talk alone, it's good for your health

Surely when you see someone talking alone while walking on the street, you have immediately thought that he should not be very well psychologically. But what if we told you that talking aloud improves our abilities and stimulates the brain's potential? So it is, according to a study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Pyschology , speaking alone and loudly helps to clarify ideas and be more effective in tasks. It is a way of organizing sequences and reasoning. So, if it gives you a little trouble, talk only when you have no viewers and thus improve your brain skills.

1. How many gigabates does our brain have?

The truth is that it is not very appropriate to try to look for a digital capacity to the memory of our brain. It is true that we usually compare the brain with a computer, but they are very different systems in organization and storage. We must take into account that intelligence and human memory is very plastic, that is, we can enhance it every day, improve it and increase its capacity. Do you have any limits? We do not know.

But as a fact to take into account we can say that our brain is better than a computer, more powerful, and we have about 100,000 million neurons , which in turn, are interconnected up to 50,000 times with their neighbors.

If we exercise our memory, if we develop our interest, concerns and acquire new knowledge, then we can generate up to 1,400 new neurons. But remember ... as we grow older we also lose them, hence the need to counteract this loss with daily efforts. Reading, writing, making logic games ... etc.

1. When is a fully mature brain?

Have you ever asked yourself this question? The truth is that it is curious to think that, indeed, the human being reaches an age when his brain is already fully developed to its maximum potential. Something like that, the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute in London asked , and his answer gave us another piece of information to keep in mind about our always
wonderful brain.

According to his studies our brain is completely mature at age 40. And the area that takes longer to develop and that culminates more or less at this age, is the prefrontal cortex.

1. Where does love reside in the brain?

Surely more than one will wonder .... but does the brain have a heart? Well, first of all we'll tell you that, in a sense, our brain is entirely emotional. Most of our decisions are made earlier with emotions than with sense of logic and reasoning. Thus, it is expected that we have a structure dedicated exclusively to "pump" or guide the feeling of love and affection. These areas are the striatum and the insula . The names are already very evocative, right?

1. The brain likes chocolate

Already, we know, and to whom not? But perhaps here is the real reason why almost 80% of the population feels true adoration for chocolate. This element offers our brain not only a great amount of energy and endorphins, those substances capable of generating pleasure and satisfaction, but also, chocolate is able to stimulate the brain waves theta , sinking it into a pleasant state of relaxation ... although this sure that you already knew.