Taming Your Amygdala: Neuroception and Your LimbicSystem

驯服你的杏仁核：神经知觉和边缘系统

To effectively switch from defensive to social engagement strategies, the mammalian nervous system needs to perform two important adaptive tasks:

(1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment is perceived as safe, inhibit the more primitive limbic structures that control fight, flight, or freeze behaviors.

—Porges (2011, p. 57)

为了有效地从防御姿态切换到交往策略，哺乳动物神经系统需要执行两个重要的适性应任务:

（1）评估风险，（2）如果环境被感知为安全的，那么就抑制控制搏斗，逃离或者是迟钝行为的更为原始的边缘结构。

—Porges (2011, p. 57)

Our brains rapidly assess our social environment for safety or danger using an automatic screening process that works under the radar of our conscious awareness.

大脑利用我们意识里的自动筛选程序，快速评估我们的社会环境，以评估安全或危险。

Porges calls this theneuroception systemto distinguish it from the more conscious process ofperception.

Porges称之为“神经感知系统”，将其与更有意识的感知过程区分开来。

This neuroception system is orchestrated by a brain region called the amygdala (shown inFigure 1.3), the brain filter for all incoming sensory information as well as for all information coming into the brain from the body.

这种神经感知系统是由一个叫做杏仁核(如图1.3所示)的大脑区域控制。它可以对所有传入的感觉信息进行大脑过滤，同时也可以对从身体内部进入大脑的所有信息进行过滤。

The amygdala is part of what neuroscientists call the “limbic system,” a group of structures in the mammalian brain that generate emotions and orchestrate the basic processes of approaching and avoiding things in life.

神经科学家把杏仁核称为“边缘系统”的一部分，是哺乳动物大脑中的一组结构，它能产生情感，并生活中接近和回避事物起基本的协调作用。