Neuroscience is the scientific study of the brain and nervous
system. Neuroscience is a rapidly advancing scientific field.
Important discoveries that help unravel puzzles of brain
development, function, and disease increasingly rely upon
integrated use of tools drawn from genetics, molecular biology,
biochemistry, and biophysics.
Through the study of the brain we have learned these facts:
Your brain is the most complex
structure in your entire body.
Your brain has 100,000,000,000 (100 billion!) nerve
cells or more.
These nerve cells communicate with each other at a rate
of about 200 miles per hour.
Brain researchers have learned more about the brain
and brain disease in the last 10 years than they have
in the previous 100 years.
