Dr Fredrickson and Dr Kok concentrated their attentions on the vagus nerve.

弗雷德里克松博士和可可博士把注意力集中在迷走神经上。

But when researchers severed the vagus nerve, all of these improvements disappeared.

但当研究人员切断迷走神经时，所有这些改进之处都消。

Once activated, they send a signal to your vagus nerve in your brain.

一旦激活，它们就会向你大脑中的迷走神经发送信号。

So after three times, after four times, you also activate your vagus tone.

三次，四次之后，你的迷走神经也开始活跃。

Here you have two arms pressing against your visceral side, which provides a lot of comfort via the vagus nerve.

你的两只手臂压在你的内脏侧，这通过迷走神经提供很多安慰。

Time will tell if vagus nerve research will change lives.

时间会证明迷走神经研究是否会改变生活。

How effectively the vagus nerve is working can be tracked by monitoring someone's heart rate as he breathes in and out.

他们通过监测一个人吸气、呼气时的心率，追踪记录迷走神经如何有效地工作。

It's hard to trace the vagus nerve's thin, twisting branches through the body.

很难在全身追踪迷走神经细而扭曲的分支。

But your vagus nerve also responds and fires up when it sees somebody else in distress.

但是当你看到其他人处于困境中时，你的迷走神经也会做出反应并兴奋起来。

One method uses viruses to probe the vagus nerve's network. .

一种方法是使用病毒来探测迷走神经网络。 .

That sensory input gets relayed to the hypothalamus, which stimulates the medulla oblongata, which then taps the parasympathetic fibers in the vagus nerve.

感官输入被传递到下丘脑，刺激延髓，延髓然后点击迷走神经中的副交感神经纤维。

We also looked at the vagus nerve as a way of understanding how parasympathetic responses work, and how they make our lives possible.

我们还研究迷走神经，以此来理解副交感神经反应是如何工作的，以及它们是如何让我们的生活成为可能的。

Those abstract feelings have to do with a real, physical nerve—the vagus nerve.

这些抽象的感觉与一个真实的、物理的神经——迷走神经有关。

After severing the vagus nerve along this track, the rats could no longer form some kinds of memories.

沿这条轨道切断迷走神经后，老鼠无法再形成某些记忆。

They communicate with the vagus nerve up to the brainstem and hypothalamus, the main parts of the brain that control food intake.

它们与迷走神经沟通， 直至脑干和下丘脑，这是大脑控制食物摄入的主要部分。

A full belly, needing to cough, and a racing heart are just some of the things the vagus communicates.

饱腹感、需要咳嗽、和心跳加速只是迷走神经传达的一些信息。

The researchers suspected that such effects were controlled by signals from the gut that are being transmitted by the vagus nerve, which connects gut and brain.

研究人员怀疑这种效果是被肠道的信号所控制，由连接肠道和大脑的迷走神经所传输。

The vagus nerve is one of the largest nerve centers in your body, and handles lots of basics, like digestion, breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.

迷走神经是你身中最大的神经中枢之一，它处理许多基本的事情，比如消化、呼吸、心率和血压。

They hint that the vagus nerve's realm may stretch farther than scientists realized, including into areas of the brain responsible for memory and emotion.

他们暗示迷走神经的范围可能比科学家意识到的要延伸得更远，包括进入负责记忆和情感的大脑区域。

First, the vagus nerve, which runs through the body into the brain, quickly transmits the information to the brain stem, passing near an important area of pain processing.

首先，贯穿整个身的脑神经，迷走神经，快速将信息传递到脑干，路经一个控制疼痛过程的重要区域。