"impact on the brain" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, “Recent studies have determined that chronic stress can have a negative impact on the brain.”.
They became shells of who they used to be - because trauma has a real impact on the brain, regardless of how confident you may be and no one is immune to the effects of trauma and abuse.
Only recently has the impact on the brain been explored.
What was missing from this picture was the effect of all that impact on the brain.
So you think that stuff has a permanent impact on the brain?
Exercises to improve balance, coordination and agility made a clear impact on the brain structure and cognitive function of a large group of German elderly people.
Modafinil's impact on the brain is so subtle that brain scans of people who have taken it hardly register any change in activity at all.
This model has been worked out using studies of fasting on humans and the resulting impact on their general health – even sufferers from asthma have shown benefits, said Mattson – and from experiments on the impact on the brains of animals affected by the rodent equivalent of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The five year, $3.2 million study is believed to be the largest of its kind, and will look not only at marijuana's impact on the brains of HIV patients, but also whether the drug is able to help suppress the virus.
These findings show that expressive music performance evokes emotion and reward related neural activations, and that music's affective impact on the brains of listeners is altered by musical training.
But this study focused on the effects of head impacts on the brain, even when players did not suffer concussion at any point during the season.
Dr Michael Lipton is currently carrying out a study with adult amateur footballers in the US investigating how heading impacts on the brain.
