ULTIMATE TEST

NERVOUS SYSTEM TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE OR FALSE?

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

TRUE OR FALSE?

• 2. The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.

• 3. A New born 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 and an average female brain weighs about 1275 grams.

• 9. The Human brain stops growing by 18 years of age.

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

• 11. Sixty percent of the human body's nerve ends in the forehead and the hands.

• 12. The brain continues to send out electric wave signals until approximately 37 hours after death

• 13. The Nervous system transmits messages to the brain at the speed of 180 miles per hour.

• 14. The human brain is very soft like butter.

• 15. Men listen with the left side of the brain and women use both sides of the brain.

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