• For the brain to function effectively, it needs fuel. While the brain represents only 2% of body weight, it requires 20% of the available oxygen.

• The brain changes as the result of where an individual puts his or her attention. For example, every time you complain, you've grown new brain cells for that purpose and you get better at it.  So you can wire your brain for negative or positive behavior.

• Stress shrinks the brain mass, knocks off at least 10 years of your life and lowers your immunity.

• Social fairness and respect give the brain a chemical boost.

• Improving thinking improves brain functioning.

• Working memory is a finite environment and can only hold about 3-5 pieces of information.

• Learning a new behavior or habit requires the creation of new neuropathways in the brain.

• Focused attention can systematically re-wire the brain. 

• The brain is a quantum environment and as such is subject to the laws of quantum mechanics. Thus, the questions you ask influence the outcome and significantly alter the patterns and quality of connections the brain generates.

• Physical exercise promotes the growth of new brain cells in the part of the brain that controls memory and learning.

• The human brain has about 100 billion neurons (the cells that actually process information), but these represent only about a tenth of the total number of cells in the brain. The rest are various specialized support cells.

References
MIT Neuroengineering and Neuromedia Group

Center for Applied Cognitive Studies

The Neuroleadership Institute

Society for Neuroscience

Spirduso, W. Ed.D  Mediating Effects on cognition, Human Kinetics, 2007

Jeffrey Schwartz, H.P. Stapp, and M. Beauregard. Quantum physics in neuroscience and psychology: a neurophysical model of mind-brain interaction. Philosophical Trans. Royal Society, 360 (1458), 2005, pp. 1309-1327.

Jeremy Henley, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in the Department of Anatomy University of Bristol RESEARCH REVIEW -- JULY 2003