Feeling anxious Your mood may actually change how your dinner tastes, making the bitter and salty flavors recede, according to new research. This link between the chemical balance in your brain and your sense of taste could one day help doctors to treat depression. There are currently no on-the-spot tests for deciding which medication will work best in individual patients with this condition. Researchers hope that a test based on flavor detection could help doctors to get more prescriptions right first time.
It has long been known that people who are depressed have lower-than-usual levels of the brain chemicals serotonin or noradrenaline, or in some cases both. Many also have a blunted sense of taste, which is presumably caused by changes in brain chemistry. To unpick the relationship between the two, Lucy Donaldson and her colleagues at the University of Bristol, UK, gave 20 healthy volunteers two antidepressant drugs, and checked their sensitivity to different tastes. T
A. people to gain better mood
B. doctor to cure depression
C. people to increase appetite
D. researchers to get prescriptions
M: Jane is in a bad mood today. What’s wrong with her
W: Her boyfriend stopped dating her because he has another girlfriend.
Letting it out may be bad for your
emotional health. Many people assume that sharing feelings openly and often is a
positive ideal that promotes mental health. But some social critics and
psychologists now conclude that repressing one’s feelings may do more good than
venting emotions. "A small number of researchers are taking an empirical look at the general assumption that speaking out and declaring one’s feelings is better than holding them in," writes Christina Sommers, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. At Suffilk University, psychologist Jane Bybee classified high-school students on the basis of their self-awareness: "sensitizers" were extremely aware of their internal states, "repressors" focused little on themselves, and "intermediates" occupied the middle range. Bybee then collected student eval A. extremely sensitive to other’s feelings B. evaluated positively by the teachers C. more successful than "intermediates" D. not as emotionally healthy as "repressors" 我来回答: 提交
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