It has what appears to be a perfectly functional brain, the size of a four-story condominium, but the organ lies dormant, electrochemical activity at a standstill.

The Polesotechnic League wasn't going to collapse for another fifty years, but already anybody who had a functional brain could read what a cutthroat period lay ahead.

We can compare them and show you what a functional brain looks like.

Vinnie, who had about half a functional brain, said, "He's right.

The brain literally changes from pain; the brain actually will lose part of the gray matter so you have a less functional brain.

All right, the man wasn't a copper - definitely not - but surely he had a fully functional brain.

There was nothing very profound about it; but, of course, playing would seem to require a functional brain, human or electronic, able to plan and to predict.

With a single pulse of the magnet, the magnetic stimulation produces functional brain "lesions," small regions of tissue that are temporarily paralyzed.

Everybody with half a functional brain!

Alexander states that the elaborate, highly detailed, and even prescient experiences he had while his brain activity was clinically non-existent provide definitive proof that consciousness can exist without the need for a functional brain.