A groundbreaking study reveals that exposure to nature can reduce pain by altering brain activity. Researchers found that participants experienced lower pain levels when viewing outdoor scenes.

For example, the nature scenes included the sounds of water and birds singing, the urban scenes included the sounds of cars and construction work, and the indoor scenes included the sounds of ...

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 ...

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 ...