Interesting Facts
- Once a nerve cell is damaged it cannot be healed. Most cells are able to reproduce, not nerve cells/tissue.
- A new born baby loses about half of their nerve cells before they are born.
- The Nervous System can transmit impulses as fast as 100 meters per second.
- Neurons do not under go mitosis.
- Neurons are the largest cells in the human body.
- 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.
- Potassium and sodium ions are vital to the proper functioning of the Nervous System.
- As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.