【Day 56】外刊13

2020-10-12 07:49:2901:10 45

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A seasoned psychiatrist, Heilig joined the National Institutes of Health in 2004 with grand ambitions of finding new ways to treat addiction and alcoholism. “It was the age of the neuroscience revolution, and all this new tech that gave us many ways of manipulating animal brains,” he recalls. By studying addictive behavior in laboratory rats and mice, he would pinpoint crucial genes, molecules, and brain regions that could be targeted to curtail the equivalent behaviors in people.

1. seasoned 经验丰富的
2. addiction and alcoholism ；addiction一般不明确说是什么上瘾那就是（毒瘾）alcoholism（酒瘾）
3. pinpoint：确定
4. curtail 限制

作为一名经验丰富的精神病学家，Heilig于2004年加入了美国国立卫生研究院，雄心勃勃地寻求治疗毒瘾和酒瘾的新方法。他回忆说，“正是是神经科学革命的时代，所有这些新技术给了我们操纵动物大脑的多种方式，”研究了实验鼠和小鼠中的成瘾行为，他可以确定关键的基因、分子和大脑区域，以限制人们的等效行为（各种瘾）。