Global and regional brain metabolic scaling and its functional consequences

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Information processing in the brain requires large amounts of metabolic energy, the spatial distribution of which is highly heterogeneous, reflecting the complex activity patterns in the mammalian brain.</p> <p>Results<...

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Main Author: Karbowski Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-05-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/18