Glucose metabolic rate, cortical

Cortical glucose metabolic rate during mental activity (—0.79). 

Haier RJ, Siegel BV, Nuechterlein KH et al 1988 Cortical glucose metabolic rate correlates of abstract reasoning and attention studied with positron emission tomography. Intelligence 12 199-217... 

In his review of the relations between the adrenal cortical hormones and carbohydrate metabolism, Verzdr (1952) lemarked that the present situation may be described briefly as follows the action of the adrenal cortex is related to the central process of energy production of the cell, which is the degradation or transformation of glucose. This being the case it could be expected that these hormones would also prove to have an influence on mitotic activity, at least in tissues of the type of adult mouse epidermis in which the rate of energy production is low. 

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