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Herbert Benson (born 1935), is an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a founding trustee of The American Institute of Stress. He has contributed more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/dr-herbert-benson )〕 More than five million copies of his books have been printed in different languages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.legacyofwisdom.org/legacy-of-wisdom/en/library/interviewees/herbert_benson.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stress.org/herbert-benson-m-d/ )〕 Started in 1998, Benson became the leader of the so-called "Great Prayer Experiment", or technically the "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)". The result published in 2006 concluded that intercessory prayer has no beneficial effect on patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. He, however, still believes that prayer has positive health benefits.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://visualmeditation.gr/en/dr-herbert-benson-prayer-has-a-therapeutic-effect/ )〕 Benson coined ''relaxation response'' (and wrote a book by the same title) as a scientific term for meditation, and he used it to describe the ability of the body to stimulate relaxation of muscle and organs. == Biography == Benson was born in Yonkers, New York. He graduated with B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University in 1957. He entered a medical course at Harvard Medical School and earned his MD degree in 1961. He 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. In 1969 He was appointed instructor in physiology and later instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was promoted to assistant professor of medicine the next year. From 1972 he became associate professor. He was appointed associate professor at the Beth Israel Hospital in 1977, the post he held until 1987. Then he returned to the medical faculty at Harvard. With the establishment of Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard in 1992, he became associate professor, and is now full professor. He is a practicing physician at Beth Israel Hospital since 1974. Between 1990 and 1997 he was lecturer in medicine and religion at Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre. Benson became founding president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Harvard Medical School in 1988. He founded the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2006,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/mission-and-history )〕 where he became its director.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Benson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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