Stepping into a virtual forest or waterfall scene through VR could be the future of pain management. A new study shows that immersive virtual nature dramatically reduces pain sensitivity almost as ...

Wheelchair navigation and training in virtual environments represent a transformative advance in rehabilitation and mobility support. By harnessing immersive virtual reality technologies, researchers ...

The brain response shows overall brain activity involved in processing the location and intensity of pain. This response was lower when people were exposed to virtual nature scenes compared to urban ...

Immersing stressed volunteers in a 360° virtual Douglas-fir forest complete with sights, sounds and scents boosted their mood, sharpened short-term memory and deepened their feeling of ...

As we come to the end of our Season of Creation virtual nature therapy walk, we return to this year's theme: to hope and act with creation. What does it mean to hope with creation? As I type this, ...

Watching nature scenes can reduce pain, reveals a new study. The new neuroimaging report says viewing nature can help ease ...

A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. Published in the journal Nature ...

We have evolved from nature, among nature and with nature. Yet, as technology permeates into our lives, it is beginning to compete with nature. The dawn and dusk we’ve evolved to set our body clocks ...

A new neuroimaging study has revealed that viewing nature can help ease how people experience pain, by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. Published in the journal Nature ...