英語聽力文摘499 教育孩子影響大腦？
教育孩子影響大腦
If you’re one of those parents that constantly worries about their kids, you’re not alone. In fact, a study out of Yale University suggested that having a child may actually affect your brain function.
In the study, researchers monitored parents’ brain activity when they heard their child crying, or saw their child’s picture. Interestingly, it turned out that some of the brain areas that were activated are the same as the brain areas that are overactive in patients with obsessive-compulsivedisorder.
Of course, it’s only normal to worry about your baby. The study suggests that obsessive-compulsivedisorder may happen when the same parts of the brain that help us be good parents become overactive.
The study is also part of a growing body of research about the physiological changes that happen to people once they become parents. The question is whether people are, in some sense, pre-programmed for their roles as parents.
你是否和很多家長一樣，經(jīng)常為孩子擔(dān)心?其實，最近耶魯大學(xué)的一項研究表明有小孩可能會影響家長的大腦功能。
研究者監(jiān)測家長聽到孩子哭或看到孩子時的大腦活動。有趣的是，結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)他們大腦的某些區(qū)域被激活，而這些區(qū)域正是那些患有強迫癥的人過于活躍的大腦區(qū)域。
當(dāng)然，擔(dān)心自己的孩子是很正常的事。研究表明強迫癥會出現(xiàn)的情況是，當(dāng)大腦幫助我們成為好家長的區(qū)域太過活躍。
這項調(diào)查同時也是另外一個研究的一部分，即當(dāng)我們成為家長后會發(fā)生那些生理上的變化。這個課題，在某種意義上是為我們作為家長做準(zhǔn)備。
