How the selfish brain organizes its supply and demand

Frontiers in Neuroenergetics

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2010, Pages

  Hitze, Britta ^a   Hubold, Christian ^a   van Dyken, Regina ^a   Schlichting, Kristin ^a   Lehnert, Hendrik ^a   Entringer, Sonja ^b   Peters, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metabolism; Brain pull; Cerebral insulin suppression; Experimental human study; Glucose allocation; Selfish brain theory; Stress; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649328037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnene.2010.00007     Document Type: Article

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