How to Use on the brain in a Sentence

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  • Another culprit is progesterone, which has a calming effect on the brain.
    Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Exposure to lead can have long-term and irreversible impacts on the brain, lungs, nervous system, heart and kidneys.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The effects of stress on the brain depend on how much of it is present.
    Clancy Blair, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
  • And of course, with their wheels turning, there’s a strain on the brain, there’s also a strain on the body.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2024
  • This drug acts on the brain to produce the feeling of fullness.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Other startups have focused on the brain or the eye or the spinal cord.
    Ashlee Vance, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The usual Ubisoft drudgery, where icons on maps become weights on the brain, was gone.
    Tauriq Moosa, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The reason why is because of their effect on the brain.
    Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
  • And in the second a blood vessel can burst or leak, putting pressure on the brain.
    Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 16 May 2022
  • Love Is Blind's Raven Ross has a new man in her life — and engagement on the brain!
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2023
  • These rules were based on the brain circuits which allowed a sea slug to forage.
    Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2024
  • Babies are seemingly on the brain for Chopra and Jonas.
    Savannah Walsh, ELLE, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The marketing team for the film has done a brilliant job of making sure Barbie is on the brain.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Samuel Schiffer lives with pasta on the brain each day, but now he’s got pasta on his head.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • It has been shown to have a calming effect on the brain and promote relaxation.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The drug, which can be administered as a nasal spray, works by blocking the effects of opiates on the brain.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Narcan is a nasal spray version of naloxone, a drug that blocks an opioid’s effect on the brain.
    Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Towards the end of the 2023 Met Gala red carpet Monday night, fans and press had one person on the brain — Rihanna.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • The Mario Kart play is part of an presentation Neuralink gave to employees a few weeks ago to show them the progress on the brain chip.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Apparently Emmy voters, like the rest of us, have just a handful of TV shows on the brain.
    John Jurgensen, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Usher is waking up with — what else? — other women on the brain.
    Dylan Green, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Old Dominion, on the other hand, had early-season Iowa on the brain.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Other research groups working on the brain cell census backed this up.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Narcan works by blocking the effects of opioids on the brain and restoring breathing.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Narcan works by blocking the effects of opiates on the brain and restoring breathing.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In the worst cases, the broken plate of bone can put pressure on the brain, or the fracture can leave the brain exposed to bacteria from outside.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2022
  • It’s not yet known whether getting rid of visceral fat can reverse its impact on the brain.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Right now pretty much everyone has Barbie on the brain.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 24 July 2023
  • This makes the medication different from opioids, which act on the brain and spinal cord.
    Sony Salzman, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In the new study, Riedl, Müller-Putz, and their colleagues examined the effects of videoconferencing on the brain and heart.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023

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