時差N小時:冥想可以減輕疼痛嗎?

Scientists have found that mindfulness meditation,known as “Samatha Meditation,” could be reducingthe pain that people experience. Fifteen researchsubjects given 120 degrees Fahrenheit heat pulsesfound the pain fifty-seven percent less unpleasantand forty percent less intense after just four twentyminute meditation sessions. Isn’t it hard tomeasure what people are feeling? The researchersdidn’t just asking people how they felt. They used anMRI, or magnetic resonance imaging machine tomeasure their brain activity. The MRI detects howmuch oxygen brain cells use. The more oxygen the cells use, the more active they are. As paingoes up, activity changes in certain areas of the brain.

【生詞注釋】

meditation n. 沉思; 冥想

session n.期間

measure v.測量

magnetic resonance imaging磁共振成像:

go up 上升;增長

【參考譯文】

科學家們發(fā)現(xiàn)冥想，也叫作“Samatha Meditation”,能夠減輕人們的疼痛感。15個人經(jīng)受120華氏溫度來進行試驗，研究發(fā)現(xiàn)經(jīng)過20分鐘的冥想后，疼痛感減少了 57%，緊張度較少了40%。測量人們的感覺不是很難嗎?研究人們不適直接詢問實驗人員的感覺。他們使用用磁共振成像機器來測驗?zāi)X部活動。機器可以偵測到腦細胞使用的氧氣，腦細胞使用的氧氣越多，它們越活躍。隨著疼痛的增加，腦部的局部區(qū)域細胞活動發(fā)生了變化。