brain

The idea of controlling the brain through new technology has a long history, as both a dream and a nightmare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

NPH is a brain disorder in which excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain’s ventricles, according to the Alzheimer’s Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

This imaging technique measures changes in blood flow and oxygen levels associated with brain activity, allowing researchers to identify which areas of the brain are more active during different tasks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Embassy in Havana began reporting strange sounds and feelings of nausea and brain fog, a cluster of symptoms that became known as Havana syndrome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It looks as if your cortex was folded up quickly and stuffed in any old way, but the truth is that every human brain is folded in exactly the same way.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Even though the patients were unconscious, their brains appeared to anticipate how the language unfolding around them might continue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

But here’s your daily reminder that humans are primates whose still-evolving brains are exponentially outpaced by technological advancement.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

It's not known exactly what causes bipolar, but people with it appear to have physical changes in their brains and it often runs in families.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Wonderstruck, then wounded, then wondering why, Carrie is targeted by the standard-issue coven of teen-movie witchery—the vicious, the stupid, and the one with just enough brains to understand right from wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Twenty brains started turning that question into a big juicy teasing.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

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

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

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

From Prester John by John Buchan

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

That is the Tessino, braining itself in cataracts.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by George Alfred Townsend

It was something that they prevented the mace of chivalry from utterly braining humankind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various