• Question: How many parts is there to the brain

    Asked by eveyerrell to Derek, Daniel on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Derek Mann

      Derek Mann answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Loads, and it also has millions and millions of neurons which are the cells in the brain that enable us to move, breath, think, see, hear and talk

    • Photo: Daniel Mietchen

      Daniel Mietchen answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Depends on how closely you look at it – a very rough division is in forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, but you can easily go to 50 or more areas in just one part of the forebrain (the cerebral cortex) if you look at general tissue structure. If you consider any cell in the brain as a “part”, the number for an adult male human brain would be about 170,000,000,000 (half of which being nerve cells).

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