Global and regional brain metabolic scaling and its functional consequences-1

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Global and regional brain metabolic scaling and its functional consequences"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/18</p><p>BMC Biology 2007;5():18-18.</p><p>Published online 9 May 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1884139.</p><p></p>egression line, had the following values: () -0.12 for visual cortex (y = -0.12x + 0.02); () -0.15 for parietal cortex (y = -0.15x + 0.01); () -0.15 for sensorimotor cortex (y = -0.15x + 0.02); () -0.15 for temporal cortex (y = -0.15x + 0.07). () Average glucose utilization rate of the entire cerebral cortex yielded the specific exponent -0.15 (y = -0.15x + 0.03)