Sentence examples for the use of brain from inspiring English sources

This week, as Joe Biden inched closer to jumping into the presidential race, Ben Carson inched closer to forcing us to retire the use of "brain surgeon" as a linguistic stand-in for "brilliant genius," with thunderingly dumb comments about guns, the Umpqua Community College shooting, and the Holocaust.

Another big announcement was about early diagnosis, including the use of brain scans.

Later, the data are analysed to find out what was happening inside the children's brains.Until recently, Britain lagged behind in the use of brain imaging to study learning.

The use of brain scanning data as evidence in courts of law has proven to be highly controversial, not least of all because of doubts about the validity of the data.

It's hard to recall a movie that's as viscerally thrilling and as deadly boring as "Gravity," a colossal and impressive exertion of brain power aimed at overriding — at obviating — the use of brain power.

David E. Meyer, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and an expert in attention and aging, said the use of brain measurement tools offered important evidence that something was changing inside the brain.

A second front of biological research has involved the use of brain-wave recordings.

"It made the use of brain-dead victims acceptable for organ transplantation" because at the time "there was a terrible furor about the brain death issue in the United States," Dr. Shumway said in an interview yesterday.

In March, a cover story in the Times Magazine predicted transformations of the legal system in response to brain imaging; its author, Jeffrey Rosen, suggested that there was a widespread "fear" among legal scholars that "the use of brain-scanning technology as a kind of super mind-reading device will threaten our privacy and mental freedom".

"Overall," the study's authors write, "the results obtained in our study suggest that BMI applications should be upgraded from merely a new type of assistive technology to help patients regain mobility, through the use of brain-controlled prosthetic devices, to a potentially new neurorehabilitation therapy, capable of inducing partial recovery of key neurological functions".

"This research opens many options, which is wonderful for patients," said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, who has pioneered the use of brain-machine interfaces for those with brain and spinal cord injury.