Mean cerebral blood flow is: (A) 1500 ml/min, (B) 2000 ml/min, (C) 756 ml/min, (D) 250 ml/min
Answer is C. The average cerebral blood flow in young adults is 54 mL/100 g/min. The average adult brain weighs about 1400 g, so the flow for the whole brain is about 756 mL/min.Ref: Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, Twenty-Third Edition