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brain

[breyn] / breɪn /




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A signature brain protein in some forms of FTD is tau, the same one that causes damage to different brain regions in Alzheimer’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

During the day, I probably took a nap so my brain is activated around 11 p.m. to midnight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

There are around 150 different types of brain tumour ranging from slow-growing to aggressive cancers, each of which can respond differently to treatment.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

New research suggests that the brain may resolve these visual conflicts by allowing different regions to compare their interpretations until a more consistent picture emerges.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

That means the 10 billion neurons in your brain and spinal cord have a possible 10 trillion synaptic choices to make.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

“There are better ways to help people whose bodies and brains can’t keep up with the demands of their jobs.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

AI left academia’s brightest mathematicians slack-jawed when it found solutions to problems that once melted their brains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Cramer has earned money from his secret-space-program tale, selling lessons on “how to make brains smarter, faster, more effective.”

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

The fMRI also detected less synchronized blood flow in regions of the children’s brains associated with attention and information processing than they did in the adults’.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

How music changes our brains / Interviewer: Thomas Rogers.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

They found that the larger brained primate species did not solve the fruit-finding puzzle more efficiently than smaller brained mammals.

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

A second major find, the nearly complete skull of a larger brained hominid, long known simply by its field number “1470” and now classified as H. rudolfensis, bolstered that point.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 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

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.

From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst.

From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

They succeed; but not without difficulty, and a free handling of handspikes—almost braining the apes before they consent to relinquish it.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid




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