'brain effort' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to the mental effort a person is putting into trying to understand or think about something. For example, "I can see how much brain effort he's put into this project."
Due to the direct impact on the brain, efforts at diagnosis and treatment of TBI have been primarily focused on the central nervous system (CNS).
Frustrated by the obvious -- the Senate (even many fellow Republicans) won't go along with their lame-brain effort to "defund Obamacare" -- GOP leaders in the House have switched gears.
This response, as she put it, is in down to the brains efforts to replenish serotonin, but is more often than not the simple result of anti-climax.
Meanwhile, Brains' efforts to produce a satisfactory design concept for Jeff's proposed Thunderbird 6 collide with fate when Skyship One is damaged and Alan's old Tiger Moth biplane appears to be the only hope of saving the International Rescue group and their impostor hosts.
Such composite images and sudden scene changes, Dr. Domhoff conceded, may be the brain's effort to make sense of random neuron fire.
This is not an easy task: "Building the reading brain" requires effort and incremental skill development throughout the school years (Nevills & Wolfe, 2009).
Knowledge from the human genome project of the genetic code, will amplify — or complicate — brain mapping efforts, which are known as the Human Connectome.
Likewise, given that the rose fragrance during REM sleep made no difference to the students' scores, it may be that the hues, horrors and hilarity of dreams during REM reflect the brain's efforts to integrate emotional, rather than factual, memories, said Dr. Stickgold, of Harvard.
Just brains and effort. .
While you're on Xanax, this won't be noticeable because the drug is powerful enough to overcome your brain's efforts to rebalance things.
