Brain Trivia Information

• An elephant's brain is about six times as large as a human brain. In relation to body size, however, humans have the largest brain of all animals (about 2% of body weight).
• The human brain weighs an average of about 1.4 kilograms, or a little over three pounds. A cat's brain weighs about one ounce.
• Albert Einstein's brain was smaller than average, because he was smaller than average.
• There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain.
• We now know for a fact that the brain continues to produce new neurons throughout our lives, and it does so in response to stimulation. This is referred to as brain plasticity or neuro-plasticity, and it is one of the most encouraging of these "brain facts."