At three years old, a child’s brain uses glucose at roughly twice the rate of an adult brain, gram for gram, a metabolic peak neuroscientists at UCLA measured with PET scans during one of the most energy-intensive periods of human brain development

PET scans at UCLA measured a metabolic peak in the preschool brain — roughly double the adult rate — and it explains the eating, the sleeping, and the meltdowns. The post At three years old, a child’s brain uses glucose at roughly twice the rate of an adult b…