Percent of weight that is brain

Value 2 %
Organism Human Homo sapiens
Reference Attwell D, Laughlin SB. An energy budget for signaling in the grey matter of the brain. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2001 Oct21(10):1133-45. p.1133 left columnPubMed ID11598490
Comments "The neural processing of information is metabolically expensive. Although the human brain is 2% of the body’s weight, it accounts for 20% of its resting metabolism (Kety, 1957 Sokoloff, 1960 Rolfe and Brown, 1997)."
Entered by Uri M
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