Herbert Benson was a founding trustee of The American Institute of Stress.
15 Facts About Herbert Benson
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Herbert Benson contributed more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books.
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Herbert Benson coined relaxation response as a scientific term for the reversion of the physical stress response that can be elicited by meditation, and he used it to describe the ability of the body to stimulate relaxation of muscle and organs.
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Herbert Benson was born on April 24,1935, in Yonkers, New York.
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Herbert Benson entered a medical course at Harvard Medical School and earned his MD degree in 1961.
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Herbert Benson continued postdoctoral programs at King County Hospital, Seattle; University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle; National Heart Institute, Bethesda; University of Puerto Rico; and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital.
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Herbert Benson was promoted to assistant professor of medicine the next year.
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Herbert Benson was appointed associate professor at the Beth Israel Hospital in 1977, the post he held until 1987.
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Herbert Benson was a practicing physician at Beth Israel Hospital from 1974.
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Herbert Benson founded the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2006, where he became its director.
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Herbert Benson died from heart disease and kidney failure at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, on February 3,2022, at the age of 86.
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Herbert Benson continued to pioneer medical research into bodymind questions.
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Herbert Benson introduced the term relaxation response as a scientific alternative for meditation.
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In 1998, Herbert Benson started a research project on the efficacy of prayer among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
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Herbert Benson married Marilyn Herbert Benson, and they had two children, Jennifer and Gregory.