Inducing physiological stress recovery with sounds of nature in a virtual reality forest - Results from a pilot study

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 240-250

  Annerstedt, Matilda ^a   Jönsson, Peter ^b   Wallergård, Mattias ^b   Johansson, Gerd ^b   Karlson, Björn ^b   Grahn, Patrik ^a   Hansen, Åse Marie ^c   Währborg, Peter ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Green environment; Heart rate variability; Soundscape; TSST

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOREST; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL SCIENCE; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SOUND; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

EID: 84879697229     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.05.023     Document Type: Article

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