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章鱼对MDMA的反应与人类很像。不出所料,基于其身体结构,章鱼是擅长拥抱的动物。安妮·斯尼德报道。
安妮·斯尼德(Annie Sneed)
翻译:张朵儿
审校:郭晓
When humans takethe drug MDMA—best known as ecstasy—they feel a deeper connection to others—emotionally and physically. Because MDMA affectsserotonin, a nervous system chemical.
当人类服用MDMA药物,也就是常说的摇头丸,他们会在情绪以及肢体层面上,感觉和他人有更深层次的联系。因为MDMA会影响一种称为血清素(又称5-羟色胺)的神经系统化学物质。
“Serotonin is one of the oldest neurotransmitters.” Gul Dolen, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University who studies social behaviors.
“血清素是最古老的神经递质之一。”约翰霍普金斯大学研究社会行为的神经科学助理教授古尔·多伦(Gul Dolen)说。
“It's been implicated in all kinds of functions, lots of them having nothing to do with social, and so we wanted to know, how long ago was serotonin's function really about encoding social behaviors?” So Dolen and her colleag