时差N小时:恋爱中的大脑 The brain in love

DON:I'm trying to write a poem to my sweetheart.

唐:我想给我的爱人写首情诗。

Can you think of a good metaphor for love?

你有没有一个好的爱情隐喻呢?

YAEL:How about hunger or thirst?

雅艾尔:牵扯挂肚或饥渴难耐怎样呢?

DON:I don't know about that.

唐:我不是很明白。

I was thinking something like love is a rose, exceptless cliche.

我在想爱情是玫瑰之类的东西,除了少些陈词滥调。

YAEL:You must be talking about a later stage of romantic love because that metaphor isentirely off target when it's very early love that we're talking about.

雅艾尔:你必须谈论浪漫的爱情后期,因为隐喻是完全偏离早期我们谈论的爱情。

DON:And hunger or thirst IS on target for early love?

唐:那饥饿或口渴是爱情伊始时的目标?

Are you saying that our need for love is as basic as ourneeds for food and water?

你是在说我们对于爱情的需求是基本的，就像我们对于食物和水的需求吗?

YAEL:Something like that.

雅艾尔:就是这样的东西。

When we're craving things like food, water, or drugs, or anticipating getting them, two areasdeep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area and caudate nucleus, are active.

当我们渴望诸如食物、水、药品,或期待得到它们,大脑深处两个区域的腹侧被盖区和尾状核就会呈现活跃状态。

A neurochemical called dopamine is released from the ventral tegmental area into the caudatenucleus.

一种名为多巴胺的神经化学物质被从腹侧被盖区释放出来进入尾状核。

Neuroscientists have produced brain scan images of the brains of people falling in love,

神经科学家已经扫描坠入爱河之人的大脑影像,

when they're feeling the passion of a very new relationship that has yet to become comfortableand secure.

当他们感到尚未到来的一段非常新的关系激情会舒适和安全。

What they found is that the brain in love looks a lot like the brain craving or anticipating thingslike food or drugs.

科学家发现恋爱中的大脑看起来很像大脑对于诸如食品或药品等的渴望或预测。

The same areas of the brain are active.

相同的大脑区域都是活跃状态。

Interestingly, this region is located in a different area of the brain from the region associatedwith determining physical attractiveness.

有趣的是,这一地区位于不同的大脑区域,与决定外貌的区域有关。

DON:You mean that our brain makes a distinction between simply finding someone attractiveand being mad about them, as they say?

唐:你的意思是,就像他们所言，我们的大脑在简单找到有吸引力的人及并为之疯狂之间做出区分?

YAEL:Yes. That these emotions activate completely different parts of the brain suggests thatromantic love doesn't just feel different than sexual attraction,

雅艾尔:是的。这些情绪完全激活大脑的不同部分表明浪漫的爱情不只是相对于性吸引力感觉不同,

but that our brains register these as two different urges.

但是,我们的大脑会记录下这两种不同的冲动。