Introduction to brain metabolism

What fuel does the brain use?

In the previous steps, we learned some crucial notions about the brain. We now end with a brief analysis of brain metabolism and its characteristics.

In this video, you will learn some surprising facts about the brain – for instance, it consumes as much energy as a leg muscle when we are running a marathon but it stores very little energy.

In the next steps, we will explore emotions and cognitions, before starting with the main part of the course and our first topic: food and the reward systems.

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