文档介绍：高中英语听力：爱能缓解疼痛
有很多人认为爱会带来伤痛，但两位美国大学的讨论专家得出的结论是“爱”能缓解痛苦。
Contemplating a new love can reduce pain by activating the same
高中英语听力：爱能缓解疼痛
有很多人认为爱会带来伤痛，但两位美国大学的讨论专家得出的结论是“爱”能缓解痛苦。
Contemplating a new love can reduce pain by activating the same brain region that processes addictions and analgesic drugs. Cynthia Graber reports
Singer: “Love Hurts.”
That ’80s power ballad had it all wrong. Love may keep you from hurting.
Two researchers—pain specialist Sean Mackey at Stanford and love specialist Arthur Aron at . Stony 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 distraction can ease pain.
Both distraction and th