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Valentin Riedl
@vavatin.bsky.social
Brain scientist asking: How do we spend metabolic energy on processing information? 

| Professor for multiscale neuroimaging @FAU
| NeuroEnergetics-lab @TUM
| Award-winning documentary LOST IN FACE about Carlotta and her brain
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‚Science Advances‘ published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?" doi.org/10.1126/scia...#funding#neuroskyence

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Nice work. Summarized clearly. Shared generously. Thanks.

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VRvavatin.bsky.social

Short answer: It’s not the size of the brain that makes us human; but we spend excessive energy on slow, chemical signaling in evolutionarily expanded regions of the brain.

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VR
Valentin Riedl
@vavatin.bsky.social
Brain scientist asking: How do we spend metabolic energy on processing information? 

| Professor for multiscale neuroimaging @FAU
| NeuroEnergetics-lab @TUM
| Award-winning documentary LOST IN FACE about Carlotta and her brain
90 followers85 following9 posts