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Brain Relies On Energy-Efficient Work

11 September 2009 No Comment

brain3The brain of an adult but accounts for only about two percent of body weight. However, approximately 20 to 25 percent of the total energy of the body to his credit. Researchers have found that the thinking organ requires even more energy, at the most efficient way of working.

The experts have examined more closely, the signal processing in the brain. Within the mental apparatus, the information is held in the form of electrical signals, which is called in the professional world “action potentials”. Mammals, which include a man to use these action potentials, according to the knowledge of all of Henrik and his team is only 1.3 times more energy than is theoretically necessary. Cuttlefish per action potential, in contrast, four times as much energy as required by theory, and are thus significantly larger energy guzzlers. The experts suggest that the complex mammalian brains could ever develop only because they work as efficient.

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