The Brain

So...What Is the Brain?

The human brain is the center of the human nervous system and is a highly complex organ. Enclosed in the cranium, it has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over three times as large as the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent body size. ...

What Does the Brain Do?
the brain is the supervisory center of the nervous system in all vertebrates. It also serves as the site of emotions, memory, self-awareness, and thought. By  electrochemical impulses, the brain directly controls conscious or voluntary behavior, such as walking and thinking. It also monitors most involuntary behavior connections with the autonomic nervous system enable the brain to adjust heartbeat, blood pressure, fluid balance, posture, and other functions and influences automatic activities of the internal organs. There are no pain receptors in brain tissue.



"Ideas that one sex has an inherent genetic advantage over the other have long been held as taboo, lest low-level biological variance be unfairly and unscientifically used to prop up gender stereotypes. But new research finds that baseline genetic differences in the brain do affect a person's psychological worldview—creating specific real-world advantages and disadvantages for each gender."
(http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt140995.html)


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