The Brain

Brain is a unique organ of human. Consists of 200 billion brain cells weight only 1.350-1.450
grams. These cells communicate with each others by neurotransmitter. There are two types of
neurotransmitter that is excitation and inhibition. Construction of the brain begins just weeks
after conception, when fetal cells destined to become brain cells begin to multiply at the
astonishing rate of about 250,000 per minute. The neurons begin their voyage to various regions
of the brain to perform their assigned tasks.
One major change that occurs in a babys brain is that it grows bigger. At birth a babys brain
weighs about 340 grams (about 12 ounces), and it continues to grow quite rapidly during the
childs first few years. By the babys first birthday, the brain has already more than doubled in
weight, to about 1,100 grams. Amazingly, by age five, brain weight will have reached about 90
percent of its eventual adult weight of 1,450 grams (almost 3 pounds). As the brain grows larger,
changes take place in the infants ability to learn. Memory becomes more functional, language
begins to develop, and thinking skills are continually being refined.
The brain is also responsible for making sense of sound by hearing speech over and over during
infancy. The first months are critically important because that is when the auditory brain centres
develop most efficiently.
The human brain can remember music (an average person can identify more than 1,000 songs),
process music (pitch, rhythm and timbre are processed in different parts of the brain), learn to
replicate music, and can identify songs even tiny fragments with incidents from our past.
With age, most people find comfort in music because they were sung to as babies, sung to even
in the womb.