Metabolic demands, sensory deficits: Tradeoffs in times of scarcity

The brain requires a lot of energy to carry out its functions at peak performance. In times of energy deficit, something has to give. In this issue of Neuron, Padamsey et al. (2021) explore how metabolic demands impact cortical coding by demonstrating the effects of food restriction on visual processing.

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The study investigates the effects of metabolic demands on cortical coding and finds that food restriction has an impact on visual processing.