brain

In 2025, during a clinical trial of CAR T-cell therapy, a technique currently used to treat some types of leukaemia and lymphoma, Maya developed a brain injury which Dellanie said left her "profoundly disabled".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The test subjects—patients diagnosed with a rare brain disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD—sat in a room with a chair and a television and each was given headphones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The same decline was not seen in astrocytes and microglia, two types of cells that support and protect the brain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even Sigmund Freud’s conception of a wild, uninhibited id struggling against the superego was influenced by the emerging discipline of brain science—specifically, the Scottish neurologist and psychologist David Ferrier’s theory of inhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Dr. Bigelow and his fellow Whole Brainers say that Phineas would surely have died if specific areas of the brain were vital to specific functions.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

She also recalled the emotional moment when he thanked her during one of his acceptance speeches, calling her "the brains of the outfit".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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

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

Since 1,374 brains weren’t examined, the true prevalence of CTE isn’t known but could be substantially higher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Without that power, blood pressure would blow the giraffe’s brains out whenever it leaned down to get a drink of water.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The second was a deep gully, but so choked with rubble that after nearly braining myself I desisted.

From Prester John by John Buchan

"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

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