Brains: Top 10 facts about the human body's cleverest organ

1. A human brain weighs about 3.3lb (1.5kg) so accounts for about two per cent of body weight. 2. What used to be called the “grey matter” in our brains is composed of about 86 billion neurons (nerve cells); the “white matter” is axons and dendrites (nerve fibres). 3. The cells and fibres are connected […]