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Summary: Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found.

A team of neuroscientists from the University of Vienna has published brain scan evidence demonstrating that exposure to nature can reduce pain. The research is available in Nature Communications.

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