Viewing nature scenes positively affects recovery of autonomic function following acute-mental stress

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5562-5569

  Brown, Daniel K ^a   Barton, Jo L ^a   Gladwell, Valerie F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC ACTIVITY; AUTONOMIC FUNCTION; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SYSTOLIC AND DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURES; VIEWING CONDITIONS;

HEART; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RECOVERY;

AUTOMATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TREATMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD; NATURAL SCIENCE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SELF ESTEEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURE; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878651096     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es305019p     Document Type: Article

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