Jan 25, 2019 12:31
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French term

Autautodoping cérébral

French to English Medical Psychology
Chaque petite tempête d’enthousiasme met en œuvre une sorte d’autodoping cérébral

The text is talking about neural connections and nerve cells.

I thought maybe cerebral autodoping?

It in a French (France) text I am translating . Text about a bodybuilding method. Delving deep into information about the nervous system. The context paragraph is below.

Ces protéines, bien déterminées, permettent la croissance de nouveaux appendices, la création de nouveaux contacts neuronaux ainsi que l’établissement et le renfort des connexions fraîchement ac-tivées au moment où nous résolvons un problème particulier ou re-levons un nouveau défi. Chaque petite tempête d’enthousiasme met en œuvre une sorte d’autodoping cérébral. Ainsi sont produites les substances nécessaires à tous les processus de croissance et de réamé-nagement des réseaux neuronaux. C’est ce qui explique pourquoi nous progressons si rapidement dans ce que nous faisons avec enthou-siasme. Car c’est aussi simple que cela : le cerveau se développe pré-cisément là où il est utilisé avec enthousiasme. »
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Discussion

Lorraine Dubuc Jan 25, 2019:
stimulation des endorphines et de la sérotonine https://www.mediachimie.org/sites/default/files/chimie-sport... qui favorise le bien-être.
Sophie Cherel Jan 25, 2019:
doping is an adequate term or at least, I'd imagine it is since you say this is a bodybuilding text.
But I'm not sure the obvious answer, self-doping, would work. You could get around it by translating that sentence along the lines of "Each little storm of enthusiasm sparks off a process that boosts the brain in the same way as doping boosts an athlete's performance."

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The trouble with "doping" is that it has strong connotations of cheating. That doesn't have to be a problem, but you can get round it by saying something like this. I've run the sentences together and made it shorter:

Each little burst of enthusiasm floods your brain with performance-enhancing substances that expand and remodel its neural networks.
Peer comment(s):

agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : Although the term "self-doping" exists and that neuronal growth and remodeling of the networks are terms that are used in this context, your suggestion works really well here.
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