冥想如何重塑大脑
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| 0:00 | Researchers have known for decades that meditation can improve someone's physical and mental health. | 研究人员几十年来都知道,冥想可以改善一个人的身心健康. |
| 0:05 | It can relieve stress, lower blood pressure, and lift someone's mood. | 它可以缓解压力,降低血压,并提升某人的情绪. |
| 0:09 | But only in the last ten years have neuroscientists taken a serious look | 但直到过去十年 神经科学家才认真观察 |
| 0:13 | at the changes in brain structure underlying some of meditation's benefits. | 大脑结构的改变是冥想的一些好处的基础。 |
| 0:17 | Like everything else we do, meditation rewires our neural circuits, | 和我们所做的一切一样 冥想使我们的神经电路重新连接 |
| 0:21 | pruning away the least used connections and strengthening the ones we exercise most. | 切断最没用的连接 强化我们最活跃的连接 |
| 0:26 | Studies looking for signs of these changes usually focus on mindfulness meditation, | 寻找这些变化迹象的研究 通常侧重于注意冥想, |
| 0:31 | which challenges people to keep their attention fixed on their thoughts and sensations in the present moment. | 挑战着人们在目前时刻 将注意力放在思想和感觉上 |
| 0:36 | Scientists acknowledge that many of these studies are small and not ideally designed, | 科学家们承认,这些研究中有许多是小的,并非理想设计, |
| 0:41 | but at this point researchers have gathered enough evidence to be confident that their findings are not just flukes. | 但此时研究人员已经收集到足够的证据,相信他们的发现并不仅仅是浮夸. |
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| 1 | Researchers have known for decades that meditation can improve someone's physical and mental health. | 研究人员几十年来都知道,冥想可以改善一个人的身心健康. |
| 2 | It can relieve stress, lower blood pressure, and lift someone's mood. | 它可以缓解压力,降低血压,并提升某人的情绪. |
| 3 | But only in the last ten years have neuroscientists taken a serious look | 但直到过去十年 神经科学家才认真观察 |
| 4 | at the changes in brain structure underlying some of meditation's benefits. | 大脑结构的改变是冥想的一些好处的基础。 |
| 5 | Like everything else we do, meditation rewires our neural circuits, | 和我们所做的一切一样 冥想使我们的神经电路重新连接 |
| 6 | pruning away the least used connections and strengthening the ones we exercise most. | 切断最没用的连接 强化我们最活跃的连接 |
| 7 | Studies looking for signs of these changes usually focus on mindfulness meditation, | 寻找这些变化迹象的研究 通常侧重于注意冥想, |
| 8 | which challenges people to keep their attention fixed on their thoughts and sensations in the present moment. | 挑战着人们在目前时刻 将注意力放在思想和感觉上 |
| 9 | Scientists acknowledge that many of these studies are small and not ideally designed, | 科学家们承认,这些研究中有许多是小的,并非理想设计, |
| 10 | but at this point researchers have gathered enough evidence to be confident that their findings are not just flukes. | 但此时研究人员已经收集到足够的证据,相信他们的发现并不仅仅是浮夸. |
| 11 | Experiments suggest that Buddhist monks have really robust connections between scattered regions of their brains, | 实验表明 佛教僧侣大脑的分散区域之间 有着很强的联系 |
| 12 | which allows for more synchronized communication. | 能够进行更同步的通信。 |
| 13 | Expert meditators also seem to develop an especially wrinkly cortex, the brain's outer layer. | 专家的冥想者们似乎也发展出一种特别的卷曲皮质,即大脑的外层. |
| 14 | We depend on the cortex for many of our most sophisticated mental abilities, like abstract thought and introspection. | 我们依赖皮层 来掌握我们最精密的智力能力 比如抽象的思考和内在思考 |
| 15 | Several studies have confirmed that meditation can increase the volume and density of the hippocampus, | 一些研究证实冥想可以增加河马的体积和密度, |
| 16 | a seahorse-shaped area of the brain in the middle of the skull that is absolutely crucial for memory. | 大脑的海马形区域 位于颅骨中部 这对于记忆至关重要 |
| 17 | And although areas of the brain responsible for sustaining attention usually shrink as we age, | 虽然大脑中负责维持注意力的领域 通常随着我们的老化而缩小 |
| 18 | meditation counteracts this decay. | 冥想抵消了这种衰变。 |
| 19 | An increasing number of studies show that meditating for as little as 12 to 20 minutes a day for several weeks can sharpen the mind. | 越来越多的研究显示,在数周内每天沉思不到12至20分钟,可以使思想更加敏锐. |
| 20 | In these studies, meditators have scored higher on tests of attention and working memory, | 在这些研究中,冥想者在对注意力和工作记忆的测试中得分较高, |
| 21 | which is the ability to temporarily store and manipulate information in one's mind. | 也就是在一个人的脑海里 暂时储存和操纵信息的能力 |
| 22 | Some lifelong meditators in their 50s and 60s can even outperform 20-somethings on tests of visual attention. | 有些50到60岁的终身冥想者 在视觉注意力测试上甚至能超过20倍 |
| 23 | So if you're interested in trying meditation, you should probably start as soon as possible. | 所以,如果你有兴趣尝试冥想, 你也许应该尽快开始。 |
| 24 | For Scientific American's Instant Egghead, I'm Ferris Jaber. | 对于科学的美国即时蛋头,我是费里斯贾比尔. |
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