人类最佳"心理医生"是狗狗?

　　Being with your dog makes you feel good, and Dr. Sandra Barker is trying to find out why. Dr. Barker, a professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Human- Animal Interaction at Virginia Commonwealth University, studies what happens inside our bodies when we interact with dogs.

　　和你的狗待在一起会让你感到舒适，不过桑德拉·巴克博士要究其所以然。巴克博士是弗吉尼亚联邦大学人与动物交互中心的精神病学教授及主任，她在研究我们在和狗互动交流时，我们体内的变化。

　　Sandra Barker: We’re trying to find out what’s really physically going on, is there a physiological benefit that folks are getting? No one’s ever looked at the brain waves before with human-animal interaction.

　　桑德拉·巴克：我们正努力找出此时人在身体上会有什么变化。在生理上人们会从中得到益处吗？以前从没有人就人与动物的互动来观察人类的脑电波。

资料图:狗狗可能成为人类最好的"心理医生"

　　Barker talked about her 2009 study, in which people’s brain waves were tested before and after spending time with a dog.

　　巴克谈到了她在2009 年的研究。在研究中，被测者会与一只狗待一段时间，在与狗相处之前和之后，他们的脑电波都会被检测。