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[brayn] / breɪn /




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Unlike treatments that focus primarily on the buildup of toxic proteins in the brain, this approach targets additional processes that can begin long before the disease reaches its advanced stages.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

KCL-286 activates a specific protein within this system, offering researchers a way to influence biological processes connected to brain health and cellular repair.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

One major obstacle is the blood-brain barrier, a protective system that limits which substances can enter the brain from the bloodstream.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Silver-Fajardo is majoring in neuropsychology, wrote her aunt, who added that she is “fascinated by the human brain” and “hopes to pursue work involving brain research, psychopharmacology, and behavioral health.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Later in the nineteenth century, scientists will discover that a weak electrical current applied to the exposed brain of a laboratory animal will make certain muscles twitch involuntarily and certain senses sharpen or go dead.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

The situation hasn’t changed with the dismissal of head coach John Harbaugh and the arrival of Minter and a whole new set of sideline brains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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

The total included 396 players who donated their brains and National Death Index records of 1,966 deceased players who didn’t.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

But the most intriguing discovery came when researchers compared the brains of people who had developed dementia with those who had remained mentally sharp despite Alzheimer's pathology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Our eyes took in every detail of the scene; our brains refused.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

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

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

Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst.

From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope

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


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