Word: brained
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...said Petersen. According to Chadbourne, Petersen “has shepherded this whole process through.” The other topic of discussion at yesterday’s meeting was the planning of the annual Freshman Advising Night, during which freshmen go to their newly assigned Houses for a brain break with concentration advisers.CHL member Jessica L. Jones ’06 proposed that the brain break be changed to a dinner in order to draw more freshmen.—Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached at nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu...
...into a melody, serenading Ulrich as she conjugated her verbs. “He’s a superstar,” says the wooed Ulrich of her mentor. Soon, perhaps more girls will be added to Maats’ list of admirers. At the end of March, the brain behind the tutoring company will appear on the WB’s new reality series “Survival of the Richest.” Who needs Starbucks when you have a company under your belt and network TV fame...
...While most experts presume that aerobic exercise protects people from dementia by maintaining good blood flow to the brain, how mental exercise could help is still a puzzle. "There are a lot of theories," says Valenzuela, "but it's very difficult to pinpoint a single neurobiological characteristic that distinguishes people with high brain reserve from those with low brain reserve. I think that's been part of the problem: we've been looking for a magic bullet." Instead, Valenzuela postulates that mental activity alters the central nervous system in different ways at various levels. Research on mice, he says, shows...
...there's much we still don't know about the relationship between brain reserve and dementia. No one can yet say for sure whether an elderly person's disinclination to mental exercise is a cause or a symptom of the disease. There's also uncertainty about whether high brain reserve helps prevent Alzheimer's telltale plaques and tangles from forming, or whether it minimizes their impact - or both. It's possible that high brain reserve fosters unusually sturdy neurons that allow the brain to carry on as usual despite the presence of plaques, much as some people can maintain their...
Until last year, Neil Young's public persona was a lot like his lyrics: alluring but largely opaque. The singer-songwriter didn't traditionally say much to the audience during concerts and rarely gave media interviews. But a potentially lethal brain aneurysm last spring that required delicate surgery, followed by the death of his father, Canadian journalist and writer Scott Young, changed him. Or, perhaps more correctly, opened him up. With mortality grabbing him by the scruff of the neck (and his 60th birthday awaiting him in the fall), Young went into a Nashville studio last March to record Prairie...