Norimasa Takayama

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between psychological responses to forest and urban environmental settings and the physical variables that characterize these environments was examined by examining the psychological responses of 168 subjects to their physical environment.

TL;DR: Walking in the forest environment may promote cardiovascular relaxation by facilitating the parasympathetic nervous system and by suppressing the sympathetic nervous system, and forest therapy may be effective for reducing negative psychological symptoms.

TL;DR: Feelings of vigor and positive effects, as well as feelings of subjective recovery and vitality were stronger in the forest environment than in the urban environment, and significant interaction terms between the environment and activity were confirmed.

TL;DR: The impact of winter forest bathing on human psychological states was investigated in this paper, where participants were divided into two groups, each group was exposed to city forest or urban (control) environment for 15 minutes.

TL;DR: The results suggest that viewing a real forest may have a positive effect on cerebral activity and psychological responses, however, both viewing and not viewing the forest had similar effects on cardiovascular responses such as BP variables and HRV.