The exact cause is unknown. But in a recent study, an experimental drug showed signs of halting the disorder in laboratory mice.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

And I'm going to try-- and when these issues come up— I'm going to try to stress them and make you try to think about the extent to which the laboratory research I'll be talking about can affect your everyday life: how you study, how you interact with people, how you might try to persuade somebody of something else, what sort of therapy works best for you.

当这些问题出现的时候,我会强调这些问题,并让你们试着思考,想想我将讲到的实验室研究,对你们日常生活的影响,你们是如何学习的,是如何与他人交流的,是如何说服他人去认同别人观点的,哪种心理治疗最适合你

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Psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg at the University of South Florida says they wanted to study crying as it happens in everyday life, not in a laboratory.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

The study used brain images taken at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York State.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

A laboratory was created to study recently discovered opiate receptors in the brain.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

"The critical part at the end of whatever the level of study you are going to do is to get yourself involved in something that puts you into a laboratory."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10