INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 12(3) 2687-2699 2015年3月 [査読有り]
There has been increasing attention on the therapeutic effects of the forest environment. However, evidence-based research that clarifies the physiological effects of the forest environment on hypertensive individuals is lacking. This study provid...
Several million years have passed since a subset of primates became humans. Because we spent more than 99.99% of our evolutionary history in natural environment, it is considered that we are essentially adaptive to nature. However, we live in a so...
Miho Igarashi   Chorong Song   Harumi Ikei   Yoshifumi Miyazaki   
JOURNAL OF NEUROIMAGING 25(1) 127-130 2015年1月 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Natural scenes like forests and flowers evoke neurophysiological responses that can suppress anxiety and relieve stress. We examined whether images of natural objects can elicit neural responses similar to those evoked by re...
EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2015(671094) 2015年 [査読有り]
Autonomic responses to urban and forest environments were studied in 625 young male subjects. The experimental sites were 57 forests and 57 urban areas across Japan. The subjects viewed the landscape (forest or urban environment) for a period of 1...