Birdsong could be used to prevent mental illness.
Study examines influence of birdsong on mood, paranoia and cognition. Birdsong could be used to prevent mental illness. Claus H Godbersen / Unsplash - If you hear chirpy birdsong coming soon, you should stop and listen. Because birdsong has been shown to alleviate anxiety and irrational thoughts. This is what researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf have discovered. In the study, the research team investigated how traffic noise and birdsong affect mood, paranoia, and cognitive performance. To do this, they conducted a randomized online experiment with a total of 295 participants.
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