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...strategies are based on recent research findings. The most striking are those showing that, where the brain is concerned, the familiar exhortation is right: use it or lose it. The Religious Orders Study, headed by Dr. David Bennett, director of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago, looked at 700 elderly, dementia-free Roman Catholic nuns, priests and brothers. Each was asked about time spent on various activities, among them viewing television; listening to the radio; reading newspapers, magazines and books; playing games such as cards and checkers; doing crossword puzzles; and going to museums...
Engaging in all these activities was found to protect against Alzheimer's and resulted in lower rates of decline in short-term memory and perceptual memory--a person's ability to perceive new information. "We're not in a position to recommend one activity over the other," says Bennett. "As far as we can tell, it's the variety--doing a bunch of different things--because you're stimulating different parts of your brain...
...drug once,” said Hist & Lit tutor Evan F. Bennett ’98 to Gary A. Mohammed ’03 during a highly uncomfortable one-on-one tutorial last Wednesday intended to discuss Mohammed’s junior paper, “but I won’t touch crack. Because once you do crack, you’re a crackhead.” After a 4/20 celebration that went bizarrely awry on Saturday, Bennett is now a crackhead...
Green was contacted in the spring of 2000 by filmmakers Barbara Leverwitz and Jamie Hellman, who had drawn their names from western Los Angeles high schools, and finally chose him and classmates Holly Sedillos and Corky Bennett to star in the documentary...
...Bennett H. Beach ’71 has run the marathon every year since his first year at Harvard 35 years...