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The FDA approved the first medication to treat narcolepsy by targeting a brain chemical that regulates wakefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
To explore whether the strategy might eventually have relevance for people, the researchers tested it in human brain models.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The 21-year-old died after sustaining a "significant brain injury" while playing for Chichester City at Wingate and Finchley FC in September 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“One Night Only” feels purged of a brain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In your brain, Broca's area may let you speak and Wernicke's area may let you understand, but listening is also a complicated social behavior.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The behavioral economists and financial planners I spoke with agree that sometimes we need to make things easier on our brains, especially when building good money habits can feel intimidating and elusive to so many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
One of the best things about being MarketWatch’s Smart Spending reporter is that I get to pick the brains of top personal-finance experts every day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Yet there is, to date, little evidence-based guidance on effective interventions for kids whose brains work differently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Researchers say something similar may happen in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
“I’ve always bragged about you two as being the ‘greatest pair of brains ever wedded in holy matrimony,’” an old Army friend wrote after reading the book, “and I never was wrong.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
That way, it won’t turn into a brained brick because of a human error somewhere in northern Virginia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
Larger brained animals could use their intelligence to find fruit more efficiently, which in turn provided more energy to fuel a larger brain.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
Clevinger, his long hair brained into pigtails, allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in 4 1/3 innings while striking out six and walking two.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2022
At least there’s nothing pointy on the Steam Deck, unlike some of the book corners I’ve brained myself with over the years.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
No, it was meant to determine if you were right brained or left brained, usually connoted by handedness.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.
From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The second was a deep gully, but so choked with rubble that after nearly braining myself I desisted.
From Prester John by Buchan, John
"I guess that was nigh braining the child," quoth Miss Amanda, with the greatest coolness, and without making the least apology.
From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various
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