Forscher haben eine umfassende Metaanalyse durchgeführt, die bestätigt, dass der Kontakt mit der Natur – ob real, virtuell oder sogar eingebildet – negative Emotionen deutlich reduziert und die Gesundheit des Gehirns fördert.
https://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2026/march/03242026-contreras-vidal-nature-brain.php
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It’s almost like we’re animals.
This should be a sign to get everyone to stop doomscrolling on their smartphones, and motivate everyone to enjoy what mother nature has provide for us.
This has been known for like over ten years now
Virtual and imagined environments too? I’ll check the study in a bit and edit my comment to see if that’s to the same degree. But given that that still works I wonder what it is precisely. Could you swirl up an image and maintain the right colour palette and get the same effects? Are the shapes ingrained into my brain somewhere? From birth as an image or is there a latent tree niche that’s satisfied by trees?
Holding out for an expert on this to weigh in. Very interesting!
Has anyone compared the extent of benefits from actual exposure to nature with those from pictures or VR? Anecdotally I get significantly greater benefits from actually getting out there, but the alternatives are better than nothing when that’s not an option.
Among many reasons why LOTR is so comforting.
*’Brain health’* here being used as a *very* broad multidimensional construct, encompassing ‚*integrity*‘ and functioning of neural circuits that *generally* support cognitive, emotional, and behavioral well‑being, rather than any absence of overt neurological disease or quantifiable downside.