The synapses of the Human Brain as we get older

Hello my fellow mind geeks! Brain! How Fascinating! Oh, I really love it. Is the most complex system of the human body. Have you ever seen the brain of a new-born? Here how it looks like:

A human brain is beautiful, regardless of its age. Look the images below. I don’t know about you guys but I have definitely seen this schema many times in my computer network course in university and in my everyday life here at my office.

A computer network system, allows nodes to share resources - networked computing devices which exchange data with each other using a data link (meaning connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving digital information.)

For a computer to work, we need cables or wireless media to connect node. In the human brain, biological neural networks exist which instead of establishing connections between nodes and media there are series of interconnected neurons whose activation defines a recognizable linear pathway.

How can you not see the beauty in a brain?  If this is what happens over a period of just nine months after our birth, imagine just what happens in two years or even in our adult life brain? This makes me so curious; does our brain network grow every day of our life?  Does it ever stop?

According to UNC Schizophrenia Research center and Department of Psychiatry of the University of North Carolina, an impressive amount of change occurs from the time the fetus is conceived up to the first three years of a child’s life. At birth, the brain of the child already has almost all the neurons it will ever have and it doubles in size in the first year. By the age of three, a child’s brain has reached 80 percent of its adult volume. Amazing!!! 

Look closely the two figures shown above. Through the various articles and book I have read which relate to our brain, I have learn that it is made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate in trillions of connections called synapses. 

These connections (synapses) are formed at a faster rate during the age of 2-3. In fact, the brain during those years creates many more synapses than what it needs. By comparing the two images (as shown above), you will see that the brain has up to twice as many synapses as it will have during adulthood.  However, why our brain creates more synapses than it needs? Hmmm this is another big subject we will need to cover!​ 

That’s it for today guys. Have a beautiful day or night!

In the mind time,

        “Remember, we are all unique!”

Techno girl!

*See you next Thursday at 9pm!

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