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 |
| ID | 108620 |