Sentence examples for brain as a switchboard from inspiring English sources

If you think of the brain as a switchboard, the doctor said, Gabriel had a lot of things knocked out.

Another team will use brain imaging to test a theory that abnormalities in the thalamus, a part of the central brain that acts as a switchboard for nerve signals, are an indication of head trauma, said Dr. Robert I. Grossman, dean and chief executive of the Langone Medical Center and a senior adviser on the study.

Implicit in the mosaic hypothesis is a kind of telephone switchboard model of the brain as a machine in which the electrical activity is strictly confined to separate pathways of neurons that are well insulated (isolated) from one another.

Some act as a "switchboard", matching buyers and sellers.

S.A.S. serves as a switchboard for amateurs to trade ideas.

Despite his handicap, he found a job as a switchboard operator, and two years ago, the Red Cross managed to trace his daughter.

The most enduring of those, as a switchboard operator for the United Jewish Appeal, was, she said, "good voice training for an actress".

Young Ruby was raised by a shifting cast of relatives, and supported herself from the age of fourteen as a switchboard operator, a pattern cutter, and a chorus girl.

After Miami, Herrenknecht wrote several letters to Paulina in Caracas, where she was working as a switchboard operator, tour guide, and part-time nanny.

She worked as a switchboard operator for American International Pictures before appearing in prison films like "The Big Bird Cage" (1972) and "Black Mama, White Mama" (1973).

After working briefly as a switchboard operator for Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre ensemble, she joined with several friends to form a comedy sketch troupe in 1939.