Physiological effects of visual, olfactory, auditory, and tactile factors of forest environments

Forest Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 171-183

  Tsunetsugu, Yuko ^a   Park, Bum Jin ^b   Miyazaki, Yoshifumi ^c  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Heart rate variability; Near infrared spectroscopy; Pulse rate; Salivary cortisol; Therapeutic effects of forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895261584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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