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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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Watching nature reduces pain by changing brain activity. Scientists used fMRI scans to show that natural scenes weaken pain ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the researchers found that acute pain was rated as less intense and unpleasant when watching nature videos -- along with a reduction in brain activity ...

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