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Effects of Landscapes on the Brain

NCT04210856 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 95

Last updated 2021-07-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There is an established consensus between researchers that the contact with natural environments has beneficial influence on mental health and well-being of people exposed to them. The knowledge in this area is based mostly on the correlational analyses, but more research is needed to explore the causal relationships between the human and his environment. More specifically, in order to identify specific restorative mechanisms in response to the specific types and components of the designed landscapes, especially in the highly urbanized context.

This study will attempt to find the psychophysiological responses in human brain to landscapes videos (in the lab), and real landscapes with different visual quality, carefully pre-selected and analysed in terms of landscape composition. In the study the rigorous experimental protocol will be administered in order to acquire qualitative and quantitative data both self-reported and measured by neuroscience tools, in order to demonstrate the causal effect of landscape exposure on the brain activity patterns and mood of healthy and depressed individuals.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Contemplative landscape exposure

landscapes classified as contemplative (through a CLM psychometric measure) are expected to elicit different brainwave oscillations as compared to non-contemplative ones.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National University Hospital, Singapore

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Parks Board, Singapore

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ministry of National Development, Singapore

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • National University of Singapore

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Roger, MDD · NUHS

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-28
Primary Completion
2021-07-09
Completion
2021-07-09

Countries

  • Singapore

Study Locations

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