India, Feb. 6 -- It has long been the popular perception that spending time in the lap of nature is therapeutic in effect. The benefits are usually discussed as being subjective. However, a review published in the April 2026 issue of Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews has attempted to gauge studies that scientifically measure the phenomena.

Titled Your brain on nature: A scoping review of the neuroscience of nature exposure, the paper attempts to look beyond the statement, "Being in nature makes me feel calmer," to find out what exactly is happening inside the brain.

Taking to Instagram on February 6, Dr Jay Jagannathan, a neurosurgeon at the Michigan Neurosurgery Institute specialising in multidisciplinary neurosurgery and pain manag...