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Dates of International Brain Day

2025 InternationalJul 22

International Tue, Jul 22Observances Holiday

2024 InternationalJul 22

International Mon, Jul 22Observances Holiday

2023 InternationalJul 22

International Sat, Jul 22Observances Holiday

2022 InternationalJul 22

International Fri, Jul 22Observances Holiday

2021 InternationalJul 22

International Thu, Jul 22Observances Holiday

Summary

This holiday is designed to increase awareness of brain health issues for people everywhere.

The World Federation of Neurology was formed in Brussels on July 22nd 1957

The Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee, at the WCN Council of Delegates assembly on 22 September 2013, proposed that July 22nd be celebrated as World Brain Day. The proposal received a warm welcome and was first observed in 2014.

The brain is the most amazing and complex organ in the human body. It consists of millions and millions of electrical wires which are known as axons.

This distance is the equivalent of travelling around the earth four times in a row! It is thought that there are about eighty billion neurons within the human brain. There are about ten trillion connections between these neurons which help us to read, write, watch, learn, plan, think, feel, move and solve problems on a daily basis.

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