SECRET LIFE Of THE BRAIN
A physician named Louis Sokoloff was trying to find out how much energy the brain consumes during vigorous thought. In 1953 Sokoloff did experiments on an 20 year old college student as his test subject. Sokoloff attached electrodes to the students scalp (forehead), let the student to sit in hall way for one hour doing maths problems and he monitored the brainwaves, checked the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in of the students blood.
To his suprise he founds out that his volunteer's brain to guzzle more oxygen as it crunched the problems, but what he that also surprised him is that, his subject's brain consumed no more oxygen while doing maths problem than it did while he was resting with his eyes closed. People have long envisaged the brain as being like a computer on standby, lying dormant until called upon to do a task, such as solving a Sudoku, ...
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