"Oh yeah," he said, as his brain stretched around to include my way of seeing things.
On New Year's Day 2007, she said, "I prayed and told God that I needed my brain stretched".
And because he has a large brain, stretched and improved over two decades' work as a physicist at the University of Manchester, not to mention his last five years as a BBC TV personality making hard science seem half-way intelligible to the majority of us dumbos, Brian Cox can't help correcting me.
The prime site, if you don't mind stretching your brain cells, is www.
A car accident can smash a head, stretching and tearing brain tissue across a wide area.
Surreal illustrationist Alexis Diaz has been making brains stretch and stand up and clap with his murals from Miami to Hawaii to Lodz, Poland this year, continually impressing with his meticulous and tight cross-hatching skills, wildly wide imagination, and his uncanny ability to collaborate stylistically with other artists.
These impacts may result in changes in the shape of the brain, brain stretch as well as brain cell damage.
The data from these scans, Kiehl hopes, will confirm his theory, published in Psychiatry Research, in 2006, that psychopathy is caused by a defect in what he calls "the paralimbic system," a network of brain regions, stretching from the orbital frontal cortex to the posterior cingulate cortex, that are involved in processing emotion, inhibition, and attentional control.
Examination of the sections of the hydrocephalic brains revealed stretching/ flattening of the ependymal cells with loss of cilia; cilia loss appeared to be more pronounced with increasing ventriculomegaly (not shown).
Subdural hematomas are when the veins that cover the brain are stretched too thin and torn, causing bleeding on the brain.
