GRE阅读练习：精神身体医学找身心健康联系.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：精神身体医学找身心健康联系 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：精神身体医学找身心健康联系 GRE考试精品课程指导  THE link between mind and body is terrain into which many medical researchers, fearing ridicule, dare not tread.  大脑与身体之间存在着千丝万缕的联系，但是，因为怕被嘲笑，很多医学研究人员不敢涉足这块领域。  But perhaps more should do so.  但是，可能应该有更多人来研究它。  For centuries, doctors have recognised the placebo effect, in which the illusion of treatment, such as pills without an active ingredient, produces real medical benefits.  数个世纪以来，医生们已经认识到了安慰剂的效力，其实是一种错觉治疗达到了真正的药物效应，比如没有实际疗效的药丸等。  More recently, respectable research has demonstrated that those who frequently experience positive emotions live longer and healthier lives.  最近以来，相当受重视的研究表明， 那些经常以积极的态度生活的人活得更长久，而且更健康。  They have fewer heart attacks, for example, and fewer colds too.  比如，他们几乎不会有心脏病，而且也很少感冒。  Why this happens, though, is only slowly becoming understood.  只是这种现象现在还无法解释。  What is needed is an experiment that points out specific and measurable ways in which such emotions alter an individuals biology.  我们需要的是做一个试验，指明具体的，可衡量以情绪改变人体生物机理的方式。  And a study published in Psychological Science, by Barbara Fredrickson and Bethany Kok at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, does precisely that.  位于查珀尔希尔的北卡罗莱纳州大学的巴巴拉弗雷德里克松和伯斯尼考克最近进行了一项研究，发表在心理科学杂志，他们的研究正体现了这点。  Dr Fredrickson and Dr Kok concentrated their attentions on the vagus nerve.  弗雷德里克松教授和考克教授集中于研究迷走神经。  This nerve starts in the brain and runs, via numerous branches, to several thoracic and abdominal organs including the heart.  这种神经起始端在大脑，通过众多的分支与几大胸部和腹部器官，包括心脏相连。  Among its jobs is to send signals telling that organ to slow down during moments of calm and safety.  它的一项职能就是，发出信号告诉这些器官，在人体处于平静和安全的时候减缓工作步伐。  How effectively the vagus nerve is working can be tracked by monitoring someones heart rate as he breathes in and out.  你可以通过监测一个人呼吸时的心率来有效地追踪迷走神经的工作过程。  Healthy vagal fun