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But Lembke says younger people may be especially vulnerable to reinforcing digital rewards because the "developing brain is a vulnerable brain".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive brain disorder that damages dopamine-producing neurons, according to Parkinson’s Foundation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
My brain furnished the room immediately: C-suite office.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
But researchers are increasingly finding that simply asking whether coffee delays sleep may miss a more important issue: what caffeine does to the brain after sleep begins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
It misses a number of key areas on the side and top of the brain.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
When fully rolled out across U.S. airspace, it is supposed to act as something like the brains of the nation’s air-traffic control system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The tissue came from people with and without Alzheimer's disease who had taken part in a long-term dementia study and later donated their brains for research.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Play is really important for their brains to not only grow, but stay happy and healthy,” Butler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
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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
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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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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
That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.
From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend
"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 Susanna Moodie
"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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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