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brain

[breyn] / breɪn /




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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 podcaster and author, 35, had two children with British boy band star Tom Parker before he died in 2022, aged 33, after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

Through inhibition, the brain was seen as the self’s control center: the source of our ability not just to see, for instance, but to focus, to pay attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The researchers focused on the hypothalamus, a small brain region that helps coordinate metabolism and other essential functions.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

If there are exact locations in the brain that allow for the ability to hear or to breathe, is there a place that generates human social behavior?

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

When fully rolled out across U.S. airspace, the software is supposed to act as something like the brains of the nation’s air-traffic control system.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 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

"It's when they realise that they have hundreds of tiny demands on them and their brains and bodies just can't switch off."

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

“The brains were in such a bad shape,” David Shoun recalled.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Hours before or after they passed, another member of the human family, likely the smaller brained, big-jawed Paranthropus, hurried along the same shoreline.

From Science Magazine Nov. 27, 2024

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

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

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

Both men ducked instinctively, to escape a braining.

From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

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

From Prester John by John Buchan




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