If you're basing this question on the common urban legend that we only use 10% of our brain, then the answer is no. Both geniuses and normal humans use 100% of their brains. You can't remove 90% of a brain's mass and have a person still work the same way. There is no dead space. Brains are expensive, evolution wouldn't allow such an expensive thing to exist if it could get the same out of something a tenth the cost.
Other causes of palpitations include: 1  Anemia. 2  Exercise. 3  Fever. 4  Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). 5  Perimenopause. 6  Trauma.
Palpitations are sometimes caused by a problem with the heart rhythm, such as: 1  atrial fibrillation â a heart rhythm problem that can cause a fast, irregular heart rate. 2  atrial flutter â a rhythm disturbance that can be fast and either regular or irregular.