1、性格测试也可以成为医疗手段 2015-02-0114:40:53 分类: english阅读字号 订阅Are you open to new experiences乐于体验新鲜事物? Are you a risk taker愿意冒风险? Do you like parties?Odds希望,可能性 are, questions like these were not part of your last doctor’s appointment. But one day they might be — a growing body of research 越来越多的研究suggest
2、s that your personality can influence your health越来越多的研究表明,你的个性会影响你的健康 . And some experts think changing people’s personal traits改变人的性格特征 might one day help treat diseases — or keep people from getting them in the first place.把病痛扼杀在摇篮之中The research also comes at a time when many are calling for
3、a more individualized approach to medicine相关研究工作取得进展之际,许多人正在呼吁医生以更加正对性的方法来给病人开药 . Some day, researchers hope, personality testing could be used to help your doctor design treatment specifically to you.For a study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, Kavita Vedhara and her co-authors
4、 gave personality tests to 121 people, and tested their blood to analyze the expression of genes related to inflammation炎症.分析与炎症有关的基因表达 Meanwhile,conscientiousness责任感, which the authors define as a trait “reflecting planfulness, caution, and harm avoidance,”按照作者的定义中,这种性格主要的特点在于计划性强,谨小慎微,能够避免受到伤害
5、was associated with decreased expression of pro-inflammatory genes亲抗性基因. Since inflammation can be part of the body’s response to infection,既然炎症可以被看做人体对于感染的反应 higher expression of pro-inflammatory genes can mean a more active immune system; lower expression can mean a relatively less active one.那
6、么促炎基因表达水平较高可能意味着免疫系统更加活跃,促炎基因表达水平较低则意味着免疫系统不那么活跃It could be, the authors write, that people with weak immune systems become more introverted to protect themselves from infection (meet fewer people, get fewer germs)为了避免感染,免疫系统比较脆弱的人肯呢过会变得更内向(少见人,少接触细菌). They might become more conscientious for更加谨慎
7、 the same reason. On the other hand, it’s possible that people’s personalities affect their gene expression反过来说,人们的个性也有可能在影响他们的基因表达 — people who go to a lot of fun, germy带有细菌的 parties (or who are really bad at washing