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Watching nature scenes lessens pain by reducing brain activity linked to pain perception. The corresponding study was published in Nature Communications. "Our study is the first to provide evidence ...

Screens shown to the participants displayed three different images: a nature scene, an urban scene and a control scene of a nondescript room. Their brains were then checked to see if there was a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They were shown three different videos: an urban scene, an indoor scene, and a nature scene. All three videos were created with comparable images, sounds, and overall quality to ensure that one ...

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 ...