Jellyfish have no brains.
But we have no monopoly on brains.
Nobody doubts her brains or grit.
In fact, their brains closely resemble those of modern reptiles.
Furthermore, the proportion of spindle cells in whales' brains is about three times that in human brains.
He is one of the leading brains in the country.
You need brains to become a university professor.
And although Asimov's "positronic" brains do not exist, positrons are indeed used to probe human brains in positron-emission tomography (PET) scanning.
A certain oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion.
Brain imaging reveals that it stimulates the reward centres of our brains.
Suduko, crosswords and electronic games can all improve your brains speed and memory
But we can help mend brains and minds by removing or reducing stress.
Those dogs had the biggest improvement in cognition and moderately reduced plaques in their brains.
He discovered that between the 16th and 26th week of gestational development in the womb, a chemical reaction occurs in the brains of boys that does not happen in the brains of girls.
The brains of autistic children have far more neurons in the prefrontal cortex than the brains of kids without autism, finds a new study that could advance research into the disorder.
Jablonski thinks such glands could be a precondition to the bigger brains long seen as a defining attribute of Homo.
This effect could stem from age-related reductions in the volume of the amygdala-as we age, our brains shrink.
"As a society, do we want to put a third of our best brains in the financial sector?"
It takes some brains to decipher these opportunities and to take advantage of them before they disappear.
Our eyes and brains together do it in a split second, without conscious effort on our part.
Now scientists say that by separating our heads from our bodies, the neck gave our brains a leg up in evolution.
The semiconscious brain is not a useless sack of neural goo, they have shown, and not all damaged brains are the same.
When the mice had epileptic seizures, their heart beats became even more erratic - suggesting the signals from their brains to their hearts were disordered.
We know that humans have larger brains and, within the brain, a larger angular gyrus, a region associated with abstract concepts.
In the brains of the treated mice, the researchers found changes in the activity of genes that encode portions of the receptor for the neurotransmiter GABA.
One is that their brains and hormones change to enhance their abilities to fend off predators, leave the nest to find food and return quickly so their young aren't attacked.
If all our participants insisted on thinking positively when it came to what lay in store for them personally, what does that tell us about how our brains are wired?
He has found that their brains remodel to use variations in pitch, tone and volume - in the same way sighted people use differences in light and colour - to build up a picture of their surroundings.
One study has already shown that it is possible to inject a viral vector for the vasopressin receptor into the brains of the fickle meadow voles and make them better partners and parents.
The dreamers did not clench their hands while they dreamt - but the scans of their brains showed identical brain activity when they clenched a real hand, and when they clenched a dream hand.
