There are two sorts of ways you could fiddle with neurotransmitters, and correspondingly two sorts of drugs.

你可以通过两种方式来控制神经递质,相应地,也就有两种对应的药物

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Even if tomorrow someone were to hand doctors a magic new technology that would enable to control neurons and synapses with whatever precision they want safely inexpensively.

就算明天有人交给医生一项神奇的新技术,让他能安全，随心所欲地控制神经元和神经突触。

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Now, neurotransmitters become interesting because a lot of psychopharmacology, both of the medical sort and the recreational sort, consists of fiddling with neurotransmitters and so you could see this through some examples.

神经递质非常的有意思,因为很多类型的精神药理学,不论是医疗类的还是消遣类的,都在研究对神经递质的控制,所以你们可以通过些例子来了解这一点

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One class of them is beta-blockers, they bind to beta-adrenergic receptors, which are receptors that exchange information between your nervous system and the contractile system that beats your heart and that causes the heartbeat.

一类药物是β阻断剂,它们与β肾上腺素受体结合,这种受体能够在神经系统和,控制心跳的心肌收缩系统之间传递信息,从而产生心跳

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