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brain

[brayn] / breɪn /




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He can still link up play and his football brain is first class.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Participants whose slow brain waves traveled shorter distances and appeared more isolated generally remembered fewer word associations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

The researchers found that this carefully organized activity becomes less coordinated as tau accumulates in the aging brain.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

These observations provide evidence of a relationship between tau accumulation, changes in deep sleep brain activity, and worsening episodic memory.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

The brain stem keeps many of your automatic functions going, like your breathing and heartbeat.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

“I think this helps us recalibrate our brains ... to connect with others and take notice of what’s going on around us.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

While neurotypical brains naturally filter out much of the sensory and social noise they don’t need, autistic brains take more of it in and have to consciously decide what to use and what to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Nearly 94% of the donated brains had CTE.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A major new study has uncovered important differences in how the brains of autistic children respond to human faces.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Limbs, torsos, brains, eyes, faces—even temperaments or propensities that were inherited—had to be created anew each time an embryo unfurled into a human fetus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

"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

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

Oh the demons, they were cackling while he sat devouring a great moose joint, until he was close to braining them with the yellow ball of the joint.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien


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