The nature scenes provoked decreased activity in a part of the brain involved in perceiving pain, called nociception. However, other areas linked to regulating pain were not significantly affected.

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The team discovered that the raw sensory signals the brain receives when something hurts were reduced when watching a carefully designed, high quality, 5-minute, virtual nature scene. What’s ...

This response was lower when people were exposed to virtual nature scenes compared to urban or indoor scenes. (Max Steininger/University of Vienna) To find out more, the researchers recorded the brain ...

The nature scenes provoked decreased activity in a part of the brain involved in perceiving pain, called nociception. However other areas linked to regulating pain were not significantly affected. The ...

Watching nature scenes can help ease pain. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) ...

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