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...that allows us to concentrate, and it starts to diminish in size well before middle age. It also begins to use the brain's fuel, glucose, less efficiently and loses about half the neurotransmitter dopamine it once had. The result of all this, says Amy Arnsten, a neurobiologist at Yale Medical School, is that as we get older, we get "ADHD, but it's attention-deficit hypoactivity--not hyperactivity...
...Yale, Arnsten has roused idling monkey and rat brains with a medication called guanfacine, which appears to amplify the circuits of the prefrontal cortex. The drug has been tested on children with ADHD as well as on people with traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress and schizophrenia, and in each case it seems to revitalize working memory...
Harvard's announcement of its generous new financial aid policy, under which families with incomes below $60,000 pay nothing and families making between $120,000 and $180,000 pay only ten percent, was promptly followed by expansions of financial aid at other schools, including a similar program at Yale. Other peer institutions also sweetened their aid packages by cutting loans and expanding funding...
...freshman crews were the highlights of the day for the Crimson. The freshman eight finished second behind Yale and ahead of Princeton, clocking in at 6:00.7, while the second freshman eight won its event with a time...
...time for the Crimson’s co-ed squad, as the team rebounded from a slow start in Providence on Saturday to finish in a three-way tie for first at the close of the first day of competition.And it all turned around when Harvard upset the favored Yale team, giving the squad the confidence it needed to succeed in the remainder of the weekend’s races.“The turning moment was when we beat Yale, a pretty good team, on Saturday,” senior Elyse Dolbec said...