brain
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The findings suggest that these established treatments could potentially serve a second purpose by helping protect the aging brain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Related: ‘My life could be cut short’: I’m 55, married and have a brain tumor.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
One area of interest involves the relationship between inflammation, brain chemistry, and energy production.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
In 2021, Okada and Lim reported encouraging laboratory findings with an earlier therapy called E-SYNC, designed to treat glioblastoma, another aggressive form of brain cancer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
All these changes were brought on by a hole through a specific part of his brain.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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Excessive caffeine consumption has been linked to headaches and sleep problems, and experts say young people can be more sensitive to caffeine as they have smaller bodies and their brains are still developing.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The team also tracked a subset of participants over several years to see how their brains changed with time.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
"They had tau in their brains, but with subclinical impacts. Their memory decline was within the normal range for their age."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Automotive technicians can hook up cars to computers for diagnosis, and plenty of in-demand jobs—such as welding and electrical work—can trade as much on brains and attention to detail as brawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Of course she had no idea if ostriches cared about that sort of thing; perhaps there was some advantage to having a skull full of eyeballs instead of brains.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
Raizel and I scooted out of the way to avoid being brained by one.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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We are a long way here from Thor developing the wheel or the Fat Broad braining the Snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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
At times, an invisible finger tapped at the panes; it was some bird of the night, drawn by the light, braining itself against the glass….
From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
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