Brain tissue in its natural state is too soft to work with, but it can be hardened by immersion in alcohol or other fixatives, and then sliced apart for examination of the interior.

Brain abscess ( or cerebral abscess ) is an abscess caused by inflammation and collection of infected material, coming from local ( ear infection, dental abscess, infection of paranasal sinuses, infection of the mastoid air cells of the temporal bone, epidural abscess ) or remote ( lung, heart, kidney etc.

Brain abscess is usually associated with congenital heart disease in young children.

Brain imaging is often used in cognitive neuroscience.

In the Brain and Brawn series of novels series by Anne McCaffrey and others, beginning with The Ship Who Sang, a " brainship " is a human body, usually one that could not develop normally, encased in the strongest materials available in that universe, and mentally connected to the controls of a spacecraft.

It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).

The university operates several international cooperations with other universities all over the world ; the Brain Bridge with Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China, is an example of such a cooperation.

While Snake is forced to fight with a prisoner named Slag ( Ox Baker ), Brain and Maggie trick the Duke's men into letting them see the President.

As they flee on foot, Brain is killed by a mine and Maggie refuses to leave him, allowing herself to be run over by the Duke's car.

It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".

In the French-language version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL's name is CARL, Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison ( Analytic Brain for Research and Communication ), however, the television camera eye plates read " HAL 9000 ".

* Brain: A small outgrowth of the ventral wall of the embryo brain from which the pars nervosa ( the posterior lobe ) of the pituitary gland develops is also called the infundibulum.

* May is National Brain Tumor Awareness Month.

Perhaps his best-known motion picture in America is Brain Donors, the 1992 update of the comedy classic A Night at the Opera, starring Smith as a cheeky, opportunistic cab driver turned ballet promoter.

Nijmegen is also an important centre of Psycholinguistics, home to the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.

* Alfredo Quinones-HinojosaMexican immigrant who is the current Director of the Brain Tumor Surgery Program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

* The Brain is the organ of the mind

Brain scans of adult stutterers have found increased activation of the right hemisphere, which is associated with emotions, than in the left hemisphere, which is associated with speech.

* The intro sequence for each episode of Pinky and the Brain ( the 1995 spin-off from Animaniacs ), shows The Brain writing equations on a blackboard, one of which is " THX = 1138 ".

In Torkel Klingberg's 2009 book The Overflowing Brain, he proposes that working memory is enhanced through exposure to excess neural activation.

* The Battle of Allen is fought close by the Hill of Allen between the Laigin, led by Murchad mac Brain Mut, and the forces of Fergal mac Máele Dúin.

Brain structure and processing ( biological ) that may explain erotic preference ( social ), however, is an area of ongoing research.

* Brain compression, a potentially fatal condition where pressure is exerted on the brain by internal bleeding

After The Real Ghostbusters, LaMarche became a regular mainstay of the voiceover industry appearing in such shows as Talespin, Tiny Toon Adventures, GI Joe, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series, Taz-Mania, Where's Waldo, The Little Mermaid, Batman: The Animated Series, and Bonkers before landing perhaps his most recognized role in 1993 as The Brain on Animaniacs ( and later its spin-off show Pinky and the Brain ).

The Research Manpower Development Center for Mechanical Part Industry, which was initiated and is supported by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources Development as the second phase of Brain Korea 21 ( BK21 ), plays an important role of specializing and enhancing the research capacity of regional graduate schools, thereby tries to develop regional R & D personnel clusters in local industry.

Hempel's own creations Gregory and Tug & Buster have been nominated for several industry awards, and his humor anthology Naked Brain was named Best Comic Book in the Baltimore City Papers Best of Baltimore 2003 issue.

In his 1988 book, Blaming the Brain: The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health, Valenstein argues that while psychotropic drugs sometimes do work, they do not even begin to address the real cause of mental disorders, since in his view biochemical theories are an entirely " unproven hypothesis " used to excuse what he sees as often unconscionable marketing practices of the drug industry.

Curiously enough, however, Pluto was the only standard Disney character not included when the whole gang was reunited for the 1983 featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol, although he did return in The Prince and the Pauper ( 1990 ) and Runaway Brain ( 1995 ).

The European orphan status vaccine and Russian approved vaccine / drug Oncophage, now renamed " vitespen ", are currently used at the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, which has begun enrolling patients into a Phase 2 clinical trials in combination with the standard of care — radiation therapy plus temozolomide — for newly diagnosed glioma patients.

Again killed in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, in which he appears in his standard Meta form and as a Phazon-enhanced version referred to ingame as Omega Ridley, he later appears in his regular form in Super Metroid where he kidnaps the last surviving ' baby ' Metroid and takes to Zebes with the intent of delivering it to Mother Brain.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain has remained the dominant book on its subject, used as a standard text in many art schools, and has been translated and published in many foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, Polish, Hungarian and Japanese.

" The court determined that Brain Fingerprinting was new evidence not available at the original trial, and that it was sufficiently reliable to merit admission of the evidence ; however, the court did not regard its weight as sufficiently compelling in light of the record as a whole as meeting its exacting standard, and thus it denied a new trial on this and the other grounds asserted by Harrington.

He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, and longtime editor of the homonymous neurological medical journal titled Brain.

* The film was originally intended to be titled The Brain of Frankenstein, but its name was changed prior to the filming schedule, which ran from February 5 through March 20, 1948.

The Cyco Miko track, " Big Fat Baby ", was a re-recording of a track called " Lost My Brain ( Once Again )" on the 1995 album of the same name.

* Mycroft Holmes was the inspiration for the name of the silent assistant quiz master of BBC Radio 4's programme Brain of Britain.

The following year, in reciprocation for the use of his name, Fulci was permitted to use gore footage culled from these films to make his notorious Cat in the Brain, in which he played himself.

Between 2002 and 2006 Ashman was the question-setter and arbiter on the Radio 4 quiz show Brain of Britain, working under the pen-name of ' Jorkins ' ( a name taken from David Copperfield ).

" Brainiac " is mostly referred to by his assumed name, although Jor-El refers to him in the fifth season finale " Vessel " as the " Brain InterActive Construct ", and Raya is the first person to call him " Brainiac " in Season 6's " Fallout.

Late in 1974, Volkoff moved to the AWA where he wrestled under the name of Boris Breznikoff ; managed by Bobby " The Brain " Heenan, he used the same gimmick with a different ring name.

" is featured on the soundtrack to the film Escape From L. A .. Their track " So Far, So Good ... So What ", was featured on the soundtrack album to the cartoon series Mega Man which is based on the video game series of the same name by Capcom, and it was also played during the end credits of the episode " Brain Bots ".

Instrumentalists have included Ruggiero Ricci, Mstislav Rostropovich, Dennis Brain, Osian Ellis, Cecil Aronowitz, Nia Harries, John Ogdon to name a few, and more recently euphonium player David Childs, cellist Kathryn Price, trombonist Mark Eager and song pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen.

Although it was built primarily to erect the image of the Great Sublime Paralytic, Apolinario Mabini, it now also serves as a repository for the bones of the thirteen martyrs of this place who died in the memorable battle of Mahabang-Dahilig, during the Philippine – American War namely: Tirso Sumadsad, Juan del Espiritu Santo, Ramon Ilagan, Julian Matulin, Bernardo de los Reyes, Enrique Castillo, Zacarias Castillo, Francisco de Claro, Moises Maramot, Nicolas Adalia, Pantaleon Panopio, Serapio Aspi and Gavino Garcia upon the advent of the American rule, the same peninsular territory of Bauan remained with the mother municipality, until, after great efforts had been exerted by the proponents of establishing a new municipality, independent of the town of Bauan, fortunately for this peninsula, such men as Don Regino Marasigan, then Municipal President of Bauan, and such illustrious sons of this community, namely: Don Francisco Castillo whose gallantry had been mentioned above ; Ignacio Leynes, who later on became the father-in-law of the famed revolutionary leader, Tomas Castillo, Indalecio Calangi, Anselmo Sandoval, Marcelino Castillo, Epifanio Abrigonda, Andres Castillo, Nicomedes Guia, Venancio Castillo, Esteban Castillo, Juan Dolor, Pedro Manalo, Bartolome Jusi, Agaton Axalan and many many others that cannot be mentioned for lack of space, left no stones unturned, and in the end, found the good graces of the then Governor General Leonard Wood and the great leader of our country, then Senate President Manuel L. Quezon, resulting in the declaration of the new municipality, comprising the eleven ( 11 ) barrios of the Calumpan Peninsula and the whole of the Maricaban Island, as an independent municipality, with the name of MABINI, derived from the great name of that Sublime Paralytic, Brain of the Revolution and Premier Adviser to the president of the erstwhile Philippine Republic, Gat Apolinario Mabini.

After his departure, Dicks continued to be associated with the programme, writing four scripts for his successor as script editor Robert Holmes: Robot ( 1975, the opening story of Tom Baker's era as the Fourth Doctor ), The Brain of Morbius ( 1976, broadcast under the name ' Robin Bland ' after Dicks ' displeasure at Holmes ' rewrites to the story led him to declare that it should go out " under some bland pseudonym "), Horror of Fang Rock and State of Decay.

Released toward the end of 1996, " The Beckoning " in particular cemented Noel's name as One to Watch in the 9-7, and subsequent work ( including a jaw-dropping remix for Neotropic's Riz Maslen on her 15 Levels EP, as well as a pair of mixes on the Future Sound of London's " We Have Explosive " maxi and the first non-FSOL release on the latter's Electronic Brain Violence label ) proved as much ; Noel nailed a recording deal with Warner Bros. in 1997 and released his self-titled first album later that year.

Laswell has on occasion used the name for live performances, the last being at the Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 13, 2004 with, among others, his wife Gigi, drummer Bryan " Brain " Mantia and guitarist Buckethead ( both from Laswell's other project, Praxis ).

American hardcore punk band Bad Brains took their name from the album song " Bad Brain ".

Les Claypool, bassist of many bands, including Primus, collaborated with virtuoso guitarist Buckethead, funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and former Primus drummer Brain ( Bryan Mantia ) under the name Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains ( a combination of all the band members ' names ), after they met at the 2002 Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival.

Despite the title, Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain is not a sequel to Fantastic Voyage, which is a novelization that Asimov wrote from the 1966 film of the same name.

* Hole in the Wall, a common name for Brain Wall, a component of the Japanese game show series Minasan no Okage desita

The gameplay mechanic is based on the " Brain Bowler " minigame in Purple Saturn Day, an ' alien sports ' compilation created by the Cryo team under the name ERE and published by Epyx.

Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Superheroes ( starring the Fab 4, as the group's name was spelled on covers ), Brain Boy, and a critically ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes.

Mombassa and O ' Doherty formed the duo Reg & Peter / Peter & Reg ( they alternated names whenever interviewed ) and released a single, " Jean " in March 1991, before adopting the band name Dog Trumpet and released the album, Two Heads One Brain.

In the novel, the Brain Gremlin subdues and locks Bischoff in his bathroom before taking the reins for a little bit to explain that the Gremlins take over at this point in the film, his displeasure at Bischoff using the nickname " Mr. Glasses " instead of his official name, and begins a treatise on politics before Bischoff breaks his way out of the bathroom with an axe and subdues the Brain Gremlin.