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🎁 中英文稿：
Children who experience neglect, abuse and poverty have a tougher time as adults than do well-cared-for kids. Now there's evidence that such stress can actually change the size of brain structures responsible for learning, memory and processing emotion.
那些遭受過忽視、虐待和貧困的孩子，相比那些被照顧的很好的孩子，在成年之後也會經歷一段艱難的時光。現在有證據表明，這種壓力實際上可以改變負責學習、記憶和處理情緒的大腦結構的大小。
The finding is in the journal Biological Psychiatry. [Jamie L. Hanson et al, Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala]
該研究發現被發表在《生物精神病學》雜誌上。
Researchers took images of the brains of 12-year-olds who had suffered either physical abuse or neglect or had grown up poor. From the images the scientists were able to measure the size of the amygdala and hippocampus—two structures involved in emotional processing and memory. You can find more 60-Second Mind onchinavoa.com.
研究人員拍攝了一些大腦的圖片，這些圖片來自於那些遭受過身體虐待，忽視和在貧窮中長大的12歲兒童。從這些圖片中，科學家能夠測量出大腦杏仁核和海馬區的大小——這兩個大腦結構負責情緒的處理和記憶。
And they compared the sizes of these structures with those of 12-year-old children who were raised in middle-class families and had not been abused. And they found that the stressed children had significantly smaller amygdalas and hippocampuses than did the kids from the more nurturing environments.
將這些孩子這些大腦結構的大小和那些生長在中產階級家庭中未遭受任何虐待的孩子做比較，結果發現，那些受過壓力的孩子的杏仁核和海馬區明顯小於那些生長在良好環境中的孩子們。
Early stress has been associated with depression, anxiety, cancer and lack of career success later on in adulthood. This study on the sizes of brain regions may offer physiological clues to why what happens to toddlers can have such a profound impact decades later.
—Christie Nicholson
早期的壓力和後來成年後的抑鬱、焦慮、癌症以及事業的不成功息息相關。對於大腦區域大小的研究或許能夠為以後研究「童年時發生了什麼事，使其對數十年後的生活產生如此深遠的影響?」這一課題提供生理線索。—克里斯蒂‧尼科爾森
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