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General Science / Re: My Brain...how much more can it take ?
« on: 21/03/2004 20:21:46 »
Getting back to the original question in this post... neil I have heard a specific # (or at least an estimate as its different in each person obviously). If I can find it when I go home I'll put it up here later just to ease your curiosity. As for brain function, we have to remember that our brain is one part of our body that we know relatively noting about. We estimate that we use ~10% of our brain, but thats just becaus ethats all that we know how to measure. While our knowledge of neurons is quite limited, we know virtually NOTHING about glial cells that compose the majority of brain cells. Many of you may have learned in school that glial cells are simply there to support the neurons, but in reality thats just all that we've been able to find out that they do. Evidence actually points twards them having MUCH higher functionality than that.
Cut me some slack I'm new around here!
Cut me some slack I'm new around here!