Has ego depletion research been resurrected as “cognitive depletion”?
“Study 2 [shows that] glucose levels, can modulate deliberative thinking…”
https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2026.2714169
I have a memory of papers arguing that drinking glucose can’t directly change brain glucose. Is that false?
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
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2026-09-21 11:18:00 UTC
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