Chita Rivera. Chita Rivera is an iconic dancer, singer and actress known for her Tony Award-winning work in 'The Rink' and 'Kiss of the Spider Woman.' Over the decades, she's starred in an array of other musicals like 'West Side Story,' 'Sweet Charity' and 'Chicago.'.
(You can roll your mouse over the picture of the brain above to find out more about the parts of the brain.). Neurons. Every part of the brainâand the rest of the nervous system, for that matterâcontain neurons (more than 100 billion of them in all). Neurons are nerve cells with some very special properties.
The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brainâs memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes).