The team discovered that the raw sensory signals the brain receives when something hurts were reduced when watching a carefully designed, high-quality, virtual nature scene. The study confirmed ...

This response was lower when people were exposed to virtual nature scenes compared to urban or indoor scenes. A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people ...

The results were clear: when viewing the nature scene, the participants not only reported less pain but also showed reduced activity in brain regions associated with pain processing. By analyzing ...

Scans monitoring the brains of 49 people showed that pain was reduced in intensity when participants were shown videos of nature rather than a city or office scene. Participants were given minor ...

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.

Surprisingly, the differences were striking. Pain perception was much lower when they looked at nature scenes than when they looked at urban or indoor scenes. And this was not only mental ...

The team discovered that the raw sensory signals the brain receives when something hurts were reduced when watching a carefully designed, high quality, virtual nature scene. The study confirmed ...