“Our work challenges the textbook mannequin of how the brain fuels itself. Neurons are extra self-ample than we thought,” Singh stated. Co-writer Daniel Colón-Ramos, the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at YSM, said the examine helps the notion of glycogen as an “energy capacitor” in neurons. “Just like in muscles, this reserve can buffer rapid shifts in energy demand,” Colón-Ramos mentioned. Other authors, all from Yale, include Sarah Emerson, a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience