How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? - 3 Quarks Daily

How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? - 3 Quarks Daily

Conor Feehly in Quanta: Sharna Jamadar(opens a new tab), a neuroscientist at Monash University in Australia, and her colleagues reviewed research from her lab and others around the world to estimate the metabolic cost of cognition(opens a new tab) — that is, how much energy it takes to power the human brain. Surprisingly, they concluded that effortful, goal-directed tasks use only 5% more energy than restful brain activity. In other words, we us…

Running on Glucose: The Hidden Energy Crisis Inside Your Brain

The human brain is a power-hungry machine. It makes up just 2% of your body weight, yet it consumes around 20% of your resting energy. That figure alone is staggering. But it only scratches the surface of what scientists are now uncovering about the true metabolic cost of cognition. A new review published in the […] The post Running on Glucose: The Hidden Energy Crisis Inside Your Brain appeared first on Above The Norm News.