Miss Figaro. – How has the health crisis inspired you?
Michel Le Van Quyen.–
During the first confinement, I was under house arrest in a very small apartment in Paris, and I realized that I missed nature very much.
During the other health restrictions, I left Paris, I went green, and I saw how much better I apprehended stress and worry.
I wanted to understand the mechanisms underlying this need for nature, and I started this investigation concerning the benefits of nature on the brain.
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In an over-urbanized society, what are the effects of nature on the body?
Today, 70% of people live in cities.
It's a recent phenomenon that dates back two hundred years, but our brains are not made to live in urban spaces.
It remains under the biological influence of what it experienced during its evolution.
This is the hypothesis of biophilia, which explains that we appreciate what we...
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