Unlocking the Energy Dynamics of Executive Functioning Linking Executive Functioning to Brain Glycogen

摘要

Past work suggests that executive functioning relies on glucose as a depletable energy, such that executive functioning uses a relatively large amount of glucose and is impaired when glucose is low. Glucose from the blood-stream is one energy source for the brain, and glucose stored in the brain as glycogen is another. A review of the literature on glycogen suggests that executive functionin guses it in much the same way as glucose, such that executive functioning uses glycogen and is impaired when glycogen islow. Findings on stress, physical persistence, glucose tol-erance, diabetes, sleep, heat, and other topics provide general support for this view.