{"id":218247,"date":"2025-07-18T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/neurons-use-built-in-backup-batteries-that-fuel-the-brain-under-stress"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:04:40","slug":"neurons-use-built-in-backup-batteries-that-fuel-the-brain-under-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/neurons-use-built-in-backup-batteries-that-fuel-the-brain-under-stress","title":{"rendered":"Neurons use built-in \u2018backup batteries\u2019 that fuel the brain under stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neurons-use-built-in-backup-batteries-that-fuel-the-brain-under-stress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Yale study has revealed that neurons \u2014 the energy-hungry cells that connect and direct activity in the brain \u2014 are equipped with \u201cbackup batteries\u201d that kick in to keep the brain running during periods of metabolic stress.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2509003122\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>, researchers describe how neurons store their own glycogen, a form of sugar that helps neurons stay resilient when their main energy sources falter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Yale study has revealed that neurons \u2014 the energy-hungry cells that connect and direct activity in the brain \u2014 are equipped with \u201cbackup batteries\u201d that kick in to keep the brain running during periods of metabolic stress. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe how neurons store their own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}