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.
The Causes of Heart Palpitations are varied and are different for each person. The one thing that is CRITICAL to know about heart palpitations is that they CAN be a sign of an extremely dangerous heart condition- or they may not be. Heart palpitations generally, but not ALWAYS, come from an abnormal heart rhythm.