Dark energy in the brain? |
What? There's "dark energy" in the brain? Not in mine I hope! Actually, it's not as bad as it sounds. There is an article out now in the journal Science (requires subscription, get the gist here), where the author ...[more] |
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Posted on Wednesday 29 November 2006 - 09:44:59 |
"Dark Energy" in the brain accounts for human behavioral variability |
For the last year or so there's been much talk about the fact that the brain apparently spends up to 99% of its energy on apparently useless, task-unrelated activity. Nobody knew what these activity fluctuations were goo...[more] |
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Posted on Friday 05 October 2007 - 16:11:24 |