John J. Rateyの "SPARK" を読むことにしました。副題に "The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" と書かれているので運動が脳に与える影響について書かれた本だと分かります。まずはIntroductionの章からの抜粋です。
Other fragments of the story I'm presenting bubble to the surface, only to sink back down. ABC World News reports that exercise might stave off Alzheimer's disease in rats; CNN flashes stats on the ever-expanding obesity crisis; the New York Times investigates the practice of treating bipolar kids with costly drugs that are only marginally effective yet carry horrendous side effects.
"bipolar kids" このでの "bipolar" とはどんな意味でしょう？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of psychiatric illness) characterized by both manic and depressive episodes, or manic ones only; (of a person) affected by bipolar disorder.: Alcoholism among bipolar women, however, did not stem from family lineage.
・Collins Dictionary: Bipolar means relating to bipolar disorder.: She is receiving treatment for a bipolar condition.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (bipolar disorder)a mental health condition that affects someone's moods, so that they can sometimes feel very depressed (= sad and without hope or energy) and at other times very excited and energetic:
いわゆる躁鬱病ですね。
Other fragments of the story I'm presenting bubble to the surface, only to sink back down. ABC World News reports that exercise might stave off Alzheimer's disease in rats; CNN flashes stats on the ever-expanding obesity crisis; the New York Times investigates the practice of treating bipolar kids with costly drugs that are only marginally effective yet carry horrendous side effects.
"bipolar kids" このでの "bipolar" とはどんな意味でしょう？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of psychiatric illness) characterized by both manic and depressive episodes, or manic ones only; (of a person) affected by bipolar disorder.: Alcoholism among bipolar women, however, did not stem from family lineage.
・Collins Dictionary: Bipolar means relating to bipolar disorder.: She is receiving treatment for a bipolar condition.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (bipolar disorder)a mental health condition that affects someone's moods, so that they can sometimes feel very depressed (= sad and without hope or energy) and at other times very excited and energetic:
いわゆる躁鬱病ですね。
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