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The first list shows number of neurons in their entire nervous system. The second list shows the number of neurons in the structure that has been found to be representative of animal intelligence. [1] The human brain contains 86 billion neurons, with 16 billion neurons in the cerebral cortex. [2] [1]
The human brain has some 8.6 x 10 10 (eighty six billion) neurons. [31] [32] Each neuron has on average 7,000 synaptic connections to other neurons. It has been estimated that the brain of a three-year-old child has about 10 15 synapses (1 quadrillion). This number declines with age, stabilizing by adulthood.
The adult human brain is estimated to contain 86±8 billion neurons, with a roughly equal number (85±10 billion) of non-neuronal cells. [41] Out of these neurons, 16 billion (19%) are located in the cerebral cortex, and 69 billion (80%) are in the cerebellum.
The rest of the brain tissue is the structural stroma that includes connective tissue such as the meninges, blood vessels, and ducts. The two main types of cells in the brain are neurons, also known as nerve cells, and glial cells, also known as neuroglia. [1] There are many types of neuron, and several types of glial cell.
There are about 200 million (2×10 8) cortical minicolumns in the human neocortex with up to about 110 neurons each, [16] and with estimates of 21–26 billion (2.1×10 10 –2.6×10 10) neurons in the neocortex. With 50 to 100 cortical minicolumns per cortical column a human would have 2–4 million (2×10 6 –4×10 6) cortical columns.
In the human brain, it is between 2 and 3-4 mm. thick, [8] and makes up 40% of the brain's mass. [2] 90% of the cerebral cortex is the six-layered neocortex whilst the other 10% is made up of the three/four-layered allocortex. [2] There are between 14 and 16 billion neurons in the cortex. [2]
The enteric nervous system in humans consists of some 500 million neurons [11] (including the various types of Dogiel cells), [1] [12] 0.5% of the number of neurons in the brain, five times as many as the one hundred million neurons in the human spinal cord, [13] and about 2 ⁄ 3 as many as in the whole nervous system of a cat.
Estimates of the number of neurons in cortex or in neocortex are on the order of 2×10 10. [9] [10] Most [11] (perhaps 90% [citation needed]) of cortical neurons are neocortical neurons. Johansson and Lansner [4] use an estimate of 2×10 10 neurons in the neocortex and an estimate of 100 neurons per minicolumn, yielding an estimate of 2×10 8 ...