Communication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex, but both costs are needed to predict synapse number

The Slow Depolarization Following Individual Spikes in Thin, Unmyelinated Axons in Mammalian Cortex

(2019) Morten Raastad   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Special report : Can we copy the brain? - A road map for the artificial brain

(2017) Jennifer Hasler   IEEE SPECTRUM

A consensus layer V pyramidal neuron can sustain interpulse-interval coding

(2017) Chandan Singh et al.   PLoS One

The thermodynamic efficiency of ATP synthesis in oxidative phosphorylation

(2016) Sunil Nath   BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

The Influence of Wiring Economy on Nervous System Evolution

(2016) Irving E. Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Non-signalling energy use in the developing rat brain

(2016) Elisabeth Engl et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Energy-Efficient Information Transfer by Visual Pathway Synapses

(2015) Julia J. Harris et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diversity of Glutamatergic Synaptic Strength in Lateral Prefrontal versus Primary Visual Cortices in the Rhesus Monkey

(2015) M. Medalla et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Thermodynamics of information

(2015) Juan M. R. Parrondo et al.   Nature Physics

Heterogeneity and Efficiency in the Brain

(2015) Vijay Balasubramanian   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Cortical Composition Hierarchy Driven by Spine Proportion Economical Maximization or Wire Volume Minimization

(2015) Jan Karbowski   PLoS Computational Biology

Updated Energy Budgets for Neural Computation in the Neocortex and Cerebellum

(2012) Clare Howarth et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Why Do Axons Differ in Caliber?

(2012) J. A. Perge et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

State and location dependence of action potential metabolic cost in cortical pyramidal neurons

(2012) Stefan Hallermann et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The economy of brain network organization

(2012) Ed Bullmore et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Scaling of Brain Metabolism with a Fixed Energy Budget per Neuron: Implications for Neuronal Activity, Plasticity and Evolution

(2011) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   PLoS One

A Mathematical Theory of Energy Efficient Neural Computation and Communication

(2010) Toby Berger et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY

Beyond the Chemiosmotic Theory: Analysis of Key Fundamental Aspects of Energy Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation in the Light of a Torsional Mechanism of Energy Transduction and ATP Synthesis—Invited Review Part 1

(2010) Sunil Nath   JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES

Brain Nonoxidative Carbohydrate Consumption is Not Explained by Export of an Unknown Carbon Source: Evaluation of the Arterial and Jugular Venous Metabolome

(2010) Peter Rasmussen et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Regional aerobic glycolysis in the human brain

(2010) S. Neil Vaishnavi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Frederico A.C. Azevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Effects of Habitat Conversion on Temporal Activity Patterns of Phyllostomid Bats in Lowland Amazonian Rain Forest

(2009) Steven J. Presley et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

How the Optic Nerve Allocates Space, Energy Capacity, and Information

(2009) J. A. Perge et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Gender differences in human cortical synaptic density

(2008) L. Alonso-Nanclares et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA