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Researchers at Keck Medicine of USC found that even when high doses of omega-3s successfully reached the brain, they did not produce measurable improvements in memory, thinking abilities, or protection against brain shrinkage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yassine and his colleagues are now investigating how the brain absorbs, processes, and uses these nutrients.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Before evaluating whether the supplements improved brain health, researchers needed to answer a fundamental question: Were the omega-3 fatty acids actually reaching the brain?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Taken together, the results suggest that simply increasing DHA availability in the brain is not enough to produce measurable cognitive benefits in this group of older adults.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Drawing blood reduces blood pressure slightly, which may have taken some of the pressure off his swollen brain.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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“If they don’t merge, the brains of everything that runs Tesla is owned by another company.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Establishing this relationship was essential because brain organoids and actual brains do not necessarily develop at the same rate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Drawing on findings from molecular biology and brain imaging, they suggest that the changes occurring in older brains may reflect a natural stage of human development rather than deterioration alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
In a 2023 study published in Nature, the researchers discovered that T cells enter the brains of mice with abnormal tau accumulation, concentrating in regions containing the most tau and contributing to neurodegeneration.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
And it was already hot enough to fry your brains through your hat.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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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
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
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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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
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
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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