基于大脑机制的亲子教养（翻译二十九）

In a healthy, mature brain, the orbital region and the anterior cingulate, working in connection with the amygdala, are more in charge of your emotions and your stress reactions than your amygdala by itself.

在一个健康成熟的大脑中，与杏仁核相关的轨道区域和前扣带比杏仁核更能控制你的情绪和压力反应。

This means that you have more power to regulate the way you react to emotionally arousing things in life, including things your child does that trigger unparental feelings in you.

这意味着你有更大的力量去调节你对生活中的情绪唤起的反应，包括你的孩子在你身上引发的不为人父母的感觉。

These connections between the orbitofrontal cortex and the nearby anterior cingulate with your amygdala are core elements of your “executive” brain, the system for regulating emotional reactions and orchestrating the process of staying in control of your actions even when experiencing strong negative feelings and impulses.

眼窝前额皮质和附近的前扣带与你的杏仁核之间的联系是你的“执行”大脑的核心要素，是调节情绪反应的系统，是你在经历强烈的负面情绪和冲动时，控制你的行为的过程。

This makes it extremely important that a child’s brain grows good connections between the orbitofrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate, and the amygdala to form an effective executive brain system for self-regulation—a process that goes on very actively during the first 18 months of life and then continues as we mature.

这使得一个孩子的大脑在眶额叶皮质、前扣带和杏仁核之间建立良好的连接，从而形成一个有效的自我调节的大脑系统，非常重要。这一过程在生命的前18个月非常活跃，随着个体的成熟，它也会继续发育成熟。