Are there plenty of birds in your neighborhood? This is good news for your mental health because birdsong can help reduce【小题1】(anxious). This is the latest finding of a study,【小题2】was published in the Nature Porifolio journal, Scientific Reports, explaining the【小题3】(remark) healing power of birdsong.

Meanwhile, another recent study on the impact of birdsong,【小题4】(base) on real time feedback via APP, also points to a sustained improvement in mental well-being.

Since COVID-19【小题5】(break) out in December 2019,the increased pressure and depression that people experienced has been well documented, for instance, in this World Health Organization overview.

In【小题6】effort to understand the influence of birdsong on mental health, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, joined scientists from the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf to evaluate how birdsong and, by contrast, man-made traffic noise affect mood and cognitive functioning. They did this in an online experiment 【小题7】(involve) 295 healthy people. These participants heard either six minutes of traffic noise,【小题8】birdsong, completing questionnaires before and after hearing the sounds.

【小题9】(important), the study authors emphasize that healthy people can also feel anxious and experience temporary depression. They believe that the questionnaire helped identify these【小题10】(tendency) in healthy participants though they are not diagnosed with mental health issues.