SSS 2008-03-03
时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(三)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Psych, I'm Christopher Intagliata, got a minute?
While at Stanford in the mid-1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken 1 Kesey started adding a peculiar 2 ingredient to his home-cooked venison stew--LSD. Now, more than forty years later, the psychedelic pioneer's beloved drug is giving neuroscientists new clues about what causes schizophrenic psychosis. Their research was published this week in the journal Nature.You’ve got a lot of chemical messengers naturally swimming in your brain. Serotonin and glutamine are two of them and have corresponding receptors to accept their chemical messengers. LSD is a chemical messenger too. When it binds 3 to a serotonin receptor, the hallucinations kick in. But only if the serotonin receptors hooked up to a glutamine receptor. The neuroscientists say the serotonin and glutamine receptor pair could be the culprit for both hallucinations and mental psychosis. Curiously 4, when neuroscientists added the chemical messenger to block the glutamine receptor, LSD didn’t have any psychedelic effect. There’s currently a drug in the second stage of clinical trials that does just that--block the glutamine receptor, and it may bring us one step closer to curing the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia.
Thanks for the minute ,for Scientific American's 60-Second Psych, I'm Christopher
Intagliata. 60-Second Psych is sponsored by Worth Publishers, the leading educational publisher in psychology 5.
- Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
- Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.
- He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
- He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
- Frost binds the soil. 霜使土壤凝结。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Stones and cement binds strongly. 石头和水泥凝固得很牢。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He looked curiously at the people.他好奇地看着那些人。
- He took long stealthy strides. His hands were curiously cold.他迈着悄没声息的大步。他的双手出奇地冷。
- She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
- He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。