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Fat fuels our brains in new AIBN discovery
(aibn.uq.edu.au)
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I did suspect that, being a Physiologist. Such high energy consumer tissue relying solely on glucose would be counterintuitive. However brain cannot consume fat as main source, unlike cardiac tissue.