Introduction

Learn about your brain, how it developed, what different parts of the brain do,
how it works and what happens if things go wrong.

The human brain is the most complex thing known to man. It contain roughly 100 billion brain cells, each of which have thousands of connections to other cells in the body yet it weighs just 1.2kg.

As you read this text, your brain is monitoring your body, ensuring that you have sufficient calories to give you energy and that your breathing is appropriate for the amount of oxygen you need, it is controlling your limbs as they use the mouse and keyboard, it is moving your eyes across the text and interpreting the characters as words, it is relating the words to your memory of language so that it is meaningful and it is accessing numerous memories so that what you are reading can be related to other things that you already know. And as if all of this is not complex enough, your brain is also the seat of your consciousness, defining your sense of being, your relationship with other people and your place in the world.

In short – your brain is a truly amazing and wonderful thing!

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