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有许多人认为爱会带来伤痛,但两位美国大学的研究专家得出的结论是“爱”能缓解疼痛。
Contemplating1 a new love can reduce pain by activating2 the same brain region that processes addictions3 and analgesic4 drugs. Cynthia Graber reports
Singer: “Love Hurts.”
That ’80s power ballad5 had it all wrong. Love may keep you from hurting.
Two researchers—pain specialist Sean Mackey at Stanford and love specialist Arthur Aron at S.U.N.Y. Stony6 Brook—met at a neuroscience conference. They realized they were talking about the same brain region.
So back at Stanford, researchers recruited 15 undergrads in the early euphoric throes of a relationship. The volunteers had photos of the romantic partner and of an attractive acquaintance. As they looked at the photos, their palms were safely heated to mild pain. Then the volunteers repeated the experiment but were distracted by tasks such as: think of sports that don’t use balls. Previous research found that distraction7 can ease pain.
Both distraction and the pictures of new loves reduced pain. But, the love photo acted in a totally different area of the brain—the primitive8 reward system region that lights up where addictive9 drugs work, and where pain-relieving opioids do their magic. The study was published in Public Library of Science One. [Jarred Younger et al., Viewing Pictures of a Romantic Partner Reduces Experimental Pain: Involvement of Neural10 Reward Systems]
So the next time you’re in pain, maybe you don’t need to pop a pill. Just fall in love.
—Cynthia Graber
1 contemplating | |
深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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2 activating | |
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3 addictions | |
瘾( addiction的名词复数 ); 吸毒成瘾; 沉溺; 癖好 | |
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4 analgesic | |
n.镇痛剂;adj.止痛的 | |
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5 ballad | |
n.歌谣,民谣,流行爱情歌曲 | |
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6 stony | |
adj.石头的,多石头的,冷酷的,无情的 | |
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7 distraction | |
n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐 | |
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8 primitive | |
adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物 | |
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9 addictive | |
adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的,成为习惯的 | |
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10 neural | |
adj.神经的,神经系统的 | |
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