Niven Jeremy E
School of Life Sciences and Centre for Computational Neuroscience & Robotics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2016 Dec;41:129-135. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.09.004. Epub 2016 Sep 21.
Electrical and chemical signaling within and between neurons consumes energy. Recent studies have sought to refine our understanding of the processes that consume energy and their relationship to information processing by coupling experiments with computational models and energy budgets. These studies have produced insights into both how neurons and neural circuits function, and why they evolved to function in the way they do.
神经元内部以及神经元之间的电信号和化学信号传递会消耗能量。最近的研究试图通过将实验与计算模型及能量预算相结合，来深化我们对消耗能量的过程及其与信息处理之间关系的理解。这些研究不仅让我们深入了解了神经元和神经回路的功能，还揭示了它们为何会以这样的方式进化以发挥功能。
