"brain storm" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a group effort to generate ideas or solve a problem. For example: "I'm going to gather the team in the conference room for a brain storm to come up with some new marketing ideas."
She wrote and illustrated a book for children with brain tumors called "Parker's Brain Storm".
"I often think of you and especially when people got a brain storm lately over the deep laid plans to procure your freedom," Darrow wrote.
In each of Dooling's three novels -- "Critical Care," "White Man's Grave" and "Brain Storm" -- an American naïf, a kind of yuppie Huck, tangles with a system of spectacular corruption.
Rebecca Jordan-Young, a sociomedical scientist at Barnard College, pulled this off last year with "Brain Storm" (Harvard), in which she showed up the flaws in research that attributes sex differences in behaviour to prenatal exposure to hormones.
You tip your hat to the current generation of scholars – notably Cordelia Fine, with Delusions of Gender and Rebecca Jordan-Young, with Brain Storm: The flaws in the science of sex differences – and you are grateful that they have taken up the cudgel as you sigh: "Here we go again".
Even if you only brain storm for a few seconds, the idea bin seems pretty limitless.
So the bullet is left embedded and Bazil goes on living, fully conscious, subject to weird brain storms and likely to die at any moment.
"My email to Papa Massata Diack was brain storming around media handling strategies to deal with the serious challenges we were facing around the image of the event.
It's taken five years, but the White House has finally updated the nation's homeland security strategy, belatedly conceding that natural catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina deserve the same sort of high-level brain storming as the threat of terrorism.
Barriers to documentation were identified through brain storming and email solicitation.
In this approach, brain storming sessions are conducted among the design team members.
