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2  You have a fat head: Neuron cell membranes are made from fatty acids.

4  The most common kind of vertigo happens when tiny calcium crystals in the inner ear detach and clump together, making the world seem to spin. Usually it is treated with head exercises that dislodge the calcium clusters.

5  Depression can cause the amygdala, one part of the brain involved in fear, to grow larger.

8  The brains of 2-year-olds consume twice as much energy as do adult brains.

9  Antidepressants such as Prozac stimulate the growth of new neurons in the brain. So does exercise.

10  The myth that we use only 10 percent of our brains may have started with Albert Einstein. (Actually, we use it all.)

15  By the age of 7, our brains are 95 percent of their adult size.

16  From birth, the brain matures from back to front. With aging, it degenerates in the opposite pattern.