But this conception of leaders as larger than life, as the organization's Big Brain, undermines leaders and followers alike.
"I think we're getting very close … to being able the change the brains of leaders, to change the wiring, if you will, in a positive direction, to help make them better leaders," says Waldman. "That's going to happen within the next couple of years".
I think that far from being a revolutionary vision hatched out of the brain of its leader, André Breton, the surrealist movement was actually the last echo of a quest for the irrational that has roots deep in the 19th century.
That was the image of King that was scorched into my brain: a Christlike leader who prophesied his people's redemption and his own imminent martyrdom in the same breath.
"One of the first signs of Alzheimer's disease is the loss of synapses – the structures that connect neurons in the brain," said study leader, Dr Vladimir Sytnyk, of the UNSW School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences.
"It is clear that, over time, copper's cumulative effect is to impair the systems by which amyloid beta is removed from the brain," said study leader Professor Rashid Deane, from the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York.
Meanwhile, even after the strike had been going on for over two months — for the fasters, a medical tipping point toward death or irreparable brain damage – P.K.K. leaders were still saying it wasn't up to them to call off the protest.
PA 4/10 4. "Brain fade" Green party leader Natalie Bennett gave what was described as the "worst political leader's interview ever" on LBC Radio as she fails to answer how the Greens would pay for its ambitious housing policies.
Senator Paul Coverdell of Georgia, a top Senate Republican leader, underwent brain surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage today.
Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail said Miliband had been "browbeaten" by the singer, who evidently had a "sharper and more analytical brain" than the Labour leader.
But while researchers had long hypothesized that intelligence was associated with brain size, the great leader's brain weighed in at just under three pounds, or slightly below average.
