How Living Off-Grid Beats City Life

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Participants were then driven either to the nature walk or the urban walk.hike in city

When the 90 minutes were up, the volunteers were brought back to the lab, where they completed the rumination questionnaire again and had another brain scan.

The researchers found that those who went on the nature walk showed reductions in both self-reported rumination and in the profusion of blood flow to the subgenual prefontal cortex. They observed no significant changes in the urban walkers.

[They’d] also like to figure out how long an encounter with nature would have to be to have desirable effects, and whether it would differ by landscape.

“Urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented rate, and we’re also seeing an uptick in the rates of anxiety disorders and depression in cities,” he said. “We want to figure out how do we bring more nature to people.”

Our Thanks go to Author: DeborahNetburn

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