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...came out early with a desire to etch their names in the record books. “My hat’s off to BC,” coach Katey Stone said. “They were hungry.” Thirty-seven seconds into the period, after a mental error by the Crimson (12-9-4), Deborah Spillane scored to give BC an early 1-0 lead. After an initial save, Harvard players failed to clear the puck. Spillane seized the opportunity, scoring over the left shoulder of goaltender Ali Boe. Anxious to make up for the early error...
Learning about grades this late into the semester can be more than a minor inconvenience. Aside from toying with the mental health of more obsessive pupils, the grade delays may have jeopardized summer job prospects or grant applications—particularly for those students who had really planned to turn a new leaf in the fall 2005 semester. Moreover, late grades meant that in many cases, students could not use their course performance from last semester to guide shopping period decisions...
...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...
...Valenzuela would like to obtain funds for a trial in which half the 500 participants would engage in a program of intensive mental stimulation while the rest would carry on as normal. In the meantime, though, why wait? A nightly game of chess may do nothing to thwart dementia. But unlike an experimental drug, there's no risk of its doing any harm, either...