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

三次，四次之后，你迷走神经也开始活跃了。

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迷走神经发送信号。

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

研究人员切断迷走神经时，所有这些改进之处都消失了。

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

你两只手臂压在你内脏侧，这通过迷走神经提供了很多安慰。

This left them wondering whether positive emotions and vagal tone drive one another in a virtuous spiral.

这为他们留下了疑念，积极情绪与迷走神经张力是否处于一良性循环之中，互相促进？

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.

他们通过监测一人吸气、呼气时心率，追踪记录迷走神经如何有效地工作。

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

这些抽觉与一真实、物理神经——迷走神经有关。

The difference yields an index of vagal tone, and the value of this index is known to be connected with health.

两次心率之差构成迷走神经张力指数。人们都知道该指数与健康程度有关。

Healthy vagal function is reflected in a subtle increase in heart rate while breathing in and a subtle decrease while breathing out.

如果吸气时心率略微增加，呼气时略微下降，则说明迷走神经工作正常。

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

是你看到其他人处于困境中时，你迷走神经也会做出反应并兴奋起来。

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。

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分支。

The stomach and brain also communicate through the vagus nerve, an intricate network of nerve fibers which run between the brain and the abdomen.

胃和大脑还通过迷走神经进行通信，迷走神经是大脑和腹部之间运行复杂神经纤维网络。

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

饱腹、需要咳嗽、和心跳加速只是迷走神经传达一些信息。

They measured all of their volunteers' vagal tones at the beginning of the experiment and at its conclusion nine weeks later.

他们在实验开始时测量了所有志愿者迷走神经张力指数，九周后实验结束时又再次测量。

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.

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副交神经纤维。

In fact, 90% of the fibers in the vagus nerve carry information from the gut to the brain, not the other way round.

事实上，迷走神经中 90% 纤维都是从肠道向大脑传递信息，而不是相反。

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。