The researchers believe this is the first time that the "first-night-effect" of different brain states has been identified in humans.

研究人员认为，这是首次在人类身上发现不同大脑状态的“首夜效应”。

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Even if mental states are brain states, I can observe your neurons all I please and never be sure you are sentient.

即使精神事态是大脑事态，我能随我高兴一直观察你的神经但仍然不能确信你是有意识的。

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Emotions have long been regarded merely as brain states and bodily responses that are devoid of conceptual meaning.

感情一直被认为是大脑所处的一种状态和身体所伴随的一些反应。

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In the United States alone, more than five million people are said to suffer from this slowly increasing brain disorder.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

In the United States alone, more than five million people suffer from this presently incurable brain disorder.

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In the United States,Parkinson's patients can receive deep brain stimulation at about three hundred medical centers.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

More important still, states like North Carolina, Virginia and Texas continue to grow more rapidly than the older brain-center states.

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To truly understand how the brain operates in both healthy and diseased states, scientists will map out the brain's neural networks and unravel how they interrelate.

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Likewise, a reductionist who identifies conscious states with states of the brain is not eliminating consciousness, but rather telling you something about its nature.

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