"myths and trues about the brain"

Hi everyone!

This time I'll write about Dr. Maldonado's talk which was on past tuesday. He talked about "Myths and trues about the brain". In my point of view this presentation was very interesting because I thought that some myths were true!

Human brain weigth 75 Kg., this is 2% of total body weigth. Also the human brain uses 25% of the oxygen we breathe and it has millions of neurons too. The human brain is wordeful, this organ is responsible for the functionaly of the human body and for this reason the human brain is full of myths.

A myth about the human brain is "You only use 10 percent of your Brain". According to Dr. Maldonado the neurons and other brain cells are constantly in use. Even, when we sleep our brain is fully active, when we are resting our brain is making multiple connections. Every action takes various areas of our brain. For this reason we need to use more than 10 percent of our brain, in fact we use 100 percent of it!. The myth is totally false.

This myth caught my attention because I think that was true it. I had read that the great Albert Einstein used only 10 percent of his brain, but he was a genius and for this I feel that the myth was true.

I think that this presentation give me new knowledge. As a future midwife I must educate the community, for this reason I should know the myths and truths about the human body!

Bye!