Some sort of telepathic surge or something.
Like every few turns the brain can reach out and sever the stem of a human foe's cerebrum/shut their brain off and reprogram it.
A few rounds later and the dead human's brain rises as another brain monster.
You could scrap the Mi-go idea all together and just make some sort of communally minded lovecraftian race of floating aliens, or even a single being that exists in multiple, small, brain-like bodies and attacks in swarms!