{"id":1257,"date":"2025-03-15T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2025-03-16T00:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T00:11:22","slug":"natures-painkiller-how-virtual-scenes-ease-pain-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/natures-painkiller-how-virtual-scenes-ease-pain-in-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature\u2019s Painkiller: How Virtual Scenes Ease Pain in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/natures-pain-brain-28487\/\" title=\"Nature\u2019s Painkiller: How Virtual Scenes Ease Pain in the Brain\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1155\" height=\"770\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"This shows a brain and trees.\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 5px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/nature-pain-brain-neuroscience-1155x770-1.jpg\"><\/a>Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found. Researchers discovered that participants reported less pain and exhibited altered brain activity associated with pain perception while looking at virtual nature, compared to urban or office environments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}