-
(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Study: Mindfulness-based stress reduction works as well as a popular anxiety drug
A medical study aimed to find out whether meditation2 is as effective as an antidepressant medication commonly prescribed for generalized anxiety disorder3. The findings were published this week.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
So how are you feeling today? Yeah. It's been a week, right? Some of us have good coping mechanisms4 in place for stress - exercise, time with family, time away from family. But the stress and anxiety that accumulates over a few days or weeks can be utterly5 debilitating6 for some people. Seven million Americans suffer from generalized anxiety disorder. That's according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. But less than half seek treatment. Dr. Elizabeth Hoge is director of Georgetown University's Anxiety Disorders7 Research Program. Here's how she describes the condition.
ELIZABETH HOGE: A disorder characterized by frequent and intense worry that makes it hard for people to concentrate, hurts their sleep, makes them irritable8. And those symptoms are so bad that it interferes9 with their ability to get things done.
MARTIN: Many suffering from anxiety are prescribed antidepressant medications like Lexapro. Dr. Hoge did this study to try and find out if patients could get the same relief through meditation. She and her team compared patients taking Lexapro to those who underwent an eight-week meditation program. It was called mindfulness-based stress reduction.
HOGE: It's weekly classes for 2 1/2 hours, plus we ask participants to do 45 minutes of meditation homework each day, if they can, to really get the skills.
MARTIN: Their research was published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the conclusion?
HOGE: The effect of treatments were pretty much the same. Doctors can feel comfortable recommending mindfulness meditation training to their patients in the same way that they might recommend psychotherapy or medication or both.
MARTIN: Dr. Hoge's goal is to get insurance companies to cover mindfulness meditation. This is my free advice. Being still, breathing deeply is always a good idea.
1 transcript | |
n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 meditation | |
n.熟虑,(尤指宗教的)默想,沉思,(pl.)冥想录 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 disorder | |
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 mechanisms | |
n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 );机械装置;[生物学] 机制;机械作用 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 utterly | |
adv.完全地,绝对地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 debilitating | |
a.使衰弱的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7 disorders | |
n.混乱( disorder的名词复数 );凌乱;骚乱;(身心、机能)失调 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8 irritable | |
adj.急躁的;过敏的;易怒的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9 interferes | |
vi. 妨碍,冲突,干涉 | |
参考例句: |
|
|