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加州大学欧文分校医学院神经科学Danette Shepard 主席,这次研究的领导者,Tallie Z. Baram博士说道:“我们的生活中到处都存在着压力,躲也躲不了。我们这次的研究成果将起到非常重要的作用。根据这些研究成果,我们可以制造新的药物以减轻不良影响,并且深入探究有些人为什么在压力下容易健忘或者记忆力出现问题。”
"Stress is a constant in our lives and cannot be avoided," said Dr. Tallie Z. Baram, the Danette Shepard Chair in Neurological Sciences in the UC Irvine School of Medicine and study leader. "Our findings can play an important role in the current development of drugs that might prevent these undesirable effects and offer insights into why some people are forgetful or have difficulty retaining information during stressful situations."
在这次研究中,Baram及他的同事还发现了一个新细节,而压力正是通过这个途径来产生副作用的。他们发现,影响学习和记忆的并不是由人们熟知的遍布全身的激素皮质醇造成的,而是强大的压力激发了一部分分子(促肾上腺皮质激素),由它所释放的荷尔蒙扰乱了大脑收集、储存信息的过程。
In their study, Baram and her UC Irvine colleagues identified a novel process by which stress caused these effects. They found that rather than involving the widely known stress hormone cortisol, which circulates throughout the body, acute stress activated selective molecules called corticotropin releasing hormones, which disrupted the process by which the brain collects and stores memories. |
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