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The human brain weighs about 3 to 3 ½ pounds. That is about as heavy as a head of cabbage. If you could touch it, the brain would feel warm and squishy soft like oatmeal. The human brain is growing! In 1860 the average weight of a male brain was 3 lbs. Now a man's brain weighs an average of 3 1/8 lbs. Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain! ...your brain is capable of having more ideas than the number of atoms in the known universe!...if you could harness the power used by your brain, you could power as a 10-watt light bulb. ...all of your "thinking" is done by electricity and chemicals. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation. Your brain is 80% water. Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

Links to research websites for brain disorders	A list of psychological disorders with descriptions -a good place to start if you are not sure which disorder your are interested in.
Depression	Anxiety Disorders
Learning Disabilities	Eating Disorders
Autism Society of America	Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Schizophrenia	Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)	Tic Disorders (Tourette's Syndrome)