访谈录[Interview]2007-11-28:睡觉时,你的大脑在干吗?

Speaking of medicine, when you go to sleep at night, think you are getting you a good night, while you sleep your body maybe resting but guess what your brain is really in many ways working overtime¹ as a new study up researchers in airs on that shows, a brain is replaying your days’ activities. Doctor Mark Sable² is from the New York university school of medicine to help to understand what does this means for our sleep and our lives, doctor happy thanks giving, thanks for being with us do you believe the study and does it match what we know in the stands that we made in neural³ science?

Happy thanks giving Greg, it does actually it’s a very exciting study you know neural science has being hidden in this direction, this is the brain in real time, this is what happens when the brain is not encumbered⁴ by our daily editor, which says you know during the day we are full of traffic, our brain is full of traffic, we have to go wonder action or another/at night all that ‘s gone, so it’s kindda like going along on highway without a lot of traffic to slow you down, and we get to replay what we were on during the day and we get the consolidate/we get to putting things in a certain order going forward, the old memories with the new, this is very much in keeping with what was the latest neural science have been shown.

We were just looking a moment ago at a image of the brain, how are we able to map this

Well you know we have some very new techniques for this which is very exciting we have a more eye scans now that calls Quantitate, they look at the amount of chemicals on the brains they can measure electrical activity, we are much better at telling what electrical activity is coming from where, the part of the brain we are talking about here is the very front of the brain, the pre-front of the context in a very very/in tip of the brain, this is where/some of the most sophisticated behavior memory and motion go on.

Well what happens doctor when we sleep are we reprocessing information I mean I think that all of us who are in a weak in the middle of the night with the idea or sort of the pithiness⁵ of the days event.

Well you know Greg, we like to think of sleep, as in rejuvenating⁶ time, a time when we really get our energy, and I don’t want to take it away from that course that’s crucial, but it looks like there is a second thing going on during that time, when we do repress information almost regard to take it go through a different way, we get to access part to the brain that we can’t access when we suppress during the day, we pull over our most exciting and interesting thought together in ways that we can’t do when we do when we distract during the day.

You know I read long ago the deprivation⁷ leads to neural our function say got to have sleep you got to have enough, you know it’s individual time table, we leave that for another time doctor Mark Sable , thanks so much again, happy ya thanks giving.

Thanks Greg, thanks having me on. Ok.

1 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

2 sable   

n.黑貂；adj.黑色的

参考例句：

• Artists' brushes are sometimes made of sable.画家的画笔有的是用貂毛制的。
• Down the sable flood they glided.他们在黑黝黝的洪水中随波逐流。

3 neural   

adj.神经的，神经系统的

参考例句：

• The neural network can preferably solve the non- linear problem.利用神经网络建模可以较好地解决非线性问题。
• The information transmission in neural system depends on neurotransmitters.信息传递的神经途径有赖于神经递质。

4 encumbered   

v.妨碍，阻碍，拖累( encumber的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The police operation was encumbered by crowds of reporters. 警方的行动被成群的记者所妨碍。
• The narrow quay was encumbered by hundreds of carts. 狭窄的码头被数百辆手推车堵得水泄不通。 来自辞典例句

5 pithiness   

n.有力，简洁；髓化现象

参考例句：

• Her works are known for pithiness of style. 她的作品以简洁著称。 来自辞典例句
• Her work is known for pithiness of style. 她的作品以简洁着称。 来自辞典例句

6 rejuvenating   

使变得年轻，使恢复活力( rejuvenate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The rejuvenating ambience of autumn is immeasurably more ancient than even the calendar. 秋天那让人恢复青春活力的气氛远比历法还要古老。 来自名作英译部分
• Rhoda says that it's embarrassing to be so idolized, but also very sweet and rejuvenating. 罗达说，给人这样过份地崇拜是很发窘的，不过也是愉快惬意使人年轻的。

7 deprivation   

n.匮乏；丧失；夺去，贫困

参考例句：

• Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous.多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
• Missing the holiday was a great deprivation.错过假日是极大的损失。