The Nature Fix

disease or infirmity.” The former health minister of Scotland calls this health-making “salutogenesis,” inspir ...

PART ONE LOOKING FOR NATURE NEURONS ...

1 The Biophilia Effect In short, the brain evolved in a biocentric world. —EDWARD O. WILSON There is nothing you ...

When I pictured shinrin yoku, “forest bathing,” I conjured Sleeping Beauty in her corpse phase, surrounded b ...

running around with their fishing poles and pink bed pillows. This was nature, Japan-style. The dozen others wi ...

into our bento boxes full of octopus and pickled root vegetables. Kunio was moving around, showing people the ...

part of an effort to provide ever more data for the project. In addition to its government-funded studies ...

doing and sent me off with a script for Zoloft. One in four middle- aged American women takes or has ...

Wilson distills the idea more precisely as residing in the natural world, identifying “the innately emot ...

is brilliant at instilling biophilic longing and affiliation at the very same time it lures us inside. It sho ...

with nearly a quarter of the population partaking in some shinrin action. Hundreds of thousands of visitors ...

“The difference is in language,” he continued. “If I ask you, ‘Is a human a dog?’ you say, ‘No, a hu ...

disease, metabolic disease, dementia and depression. More recent research shows that the steady stress o ...

Afterward, some students were assigned to watch a ten-minute video of nature scenes and some to watch ...

Tokyo, wondered the same thing. Qing Li is interested in nature’s effect on mood states and stress as man ...

actinomycetes—which the human nose can detect at concentrations of 10 parts per trillion—and of course we harve ...

don’t need to harvest your own; he said standard health-store aromatherapy oils should do the job. “W ...

to optimize their success. Maybe they can even use digital nature and forget the bugs and rain altogeth ...

2 How Many Neuroscientists Does It Take to Find a Stinking Milkvetch? We used to wait We used to was ...

When you head for the desert, David Strayer is the man you want behind the wheel. He never texts or talks on t ...