What are facts about the nervous systems?

Answer 1

1 interesting fact about the nervous system is

The nervous system controls our body with us knowing it and with us not knowing it. Example: blinking, sneezing

ALSO the nervous system has NEURONZ and CEREBRELZ

Answer 2

Here are some fun and interesting facts about the human nervous system:

1. A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times during the course of its first year.

2. The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and vice-versa. 3. A newborn baby loses about half of their nerve cells before they are born.

4. As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.

5. There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.

6. The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cm.

7. The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.

8. An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.

9. An average adult female brain is about 1275 grams.

10. Only four percent of the brain's cells work while the remaining cells are kept in reserve.

11. It communicates via electric impulses and controls all movement in the body.

12. Your nerves use your spinal cord like a giant highway.

13. There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.

14. If you could line up all the neurons in our body it would be around 600 miles long.

15. There are 100 billion neurons in your brain alone.

16. Neurons are the largest cells in the human body.

17. The central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.

18. Nerve points are the end of the nerves.

19. The nervous system tells your brain when you hurt or have pain.

20. The brain is responsible for our emotions, our perceptions including of pain and of pleasure.

21. Your brain cannot feel pain, it does not have pain sensory receptors.