on the brain
idiom
informal
: always in one's thoughts
I've had pizza on the brain all day.
He's got sex on the brain.
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Holding one's breath creates stress on the brain as it's deprived of oxygen, which causes the rest of the body to respond by pumping more blood to the organ.
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New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
And join us next week on the Chasing Life podcast for a fascinating discussion on the brain between two neurosurgeons, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Theodore Schwartz of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City
CNN Audio’s Jennifer Lai contributed to this report.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
One idea is to come up with therapies that are less invasive than the deep brain implants used to treat Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, but are still precise enough to have a profound impact on the brain.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
Researchers from Duke University, Yale University, and the University of California, San Francisco, are working on a drug modeled off ibogaine that, at least in animal trials, seems able to mimic its impact on the brain with fewer unwanted side effects.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
And join us next week on the Chasing Life podcast for a fascinating discussion on the brain between two neurosurgeons, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Theodore Schwartz of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City
CNN Audio’s Jennifer Lai contributed to this report.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
One idea is to come up with therapies that are less invasive than the deep brain implants used to treat Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, but are still precise enough to have a profound impact on the brain.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
Researchers from Duke University, Yale University, and the University of California, San Francisco, are working on a drug modeled off ibogaine that, at least in animal trials, seems able to mimic its impact on the brain with fewer unwanted side effects.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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