THE BENEFITS OF THE NATURAL AQUARIUM

A NATURAL AQUARIUM IN THE WAITING ROOM

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The first study was conducted by Katcher, Segal and Beck in 1984 (Comparison of Contemplation and Hypnosis for the Reduction of Anxiety and Discomfort during Dental Surgery): creating two waiting rooms for two dental offices, one equipped with a aquarium and the other not, it was found that the patients who had had the opportunity to observe the harmony of the fish within the aquarium had dealt with dental procedures in a better way and with less anxiety.

ACQUARIO NATURALE COME PET THERAPY

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In 2015 an interesting study was conducted by researchers from the universities of Plymouth and Exeter, in collaboration with the National Marine Aquarium, then published in the scientific journal “Enviroment & Behavior ”: monitoring the physical and mental state on the part of the participants, after a period of time spent staring at an aquarium, the researchers found that they had experienced a reduction in blood pressure and heart rate, resulting in a reduction in stress levels. to the number of fish in the aquarium: a greater number of species creates better beneficial effects in the observer.According

to the British researcher Deborah Cracknell, “v swimming fish in the aquarium is a beneficial pet therapy: relaxes, reduces pressure and lowers the heart rate ”. (Marine Biota and psychological Well-Being: A preliminary Examination of dose – Response Effects in an Aquarium setting)

THE NATURAL AQUARIUM AND THE ELDERLY

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There is also scientific evidence of the ameliorative effects that the observation of aquariums can have on degenerative diseases: in 2013 Nancy E. Edwards and Alan M. Beck conducted a study on 70 elderly subjects suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's (The influence of aquariums on weight in individuals with dementia).Aquariums were placed inside the host structures, particularly in the communal dining rooms. The results were surprising: the patients showed a greater propensity to consume meals and therefore to maintain or increase their body weight.

THE NATURAL AQUARIUM AND CHILDREN

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Not only on the elderly, but also on children: in Italy there is an experimental scientific project called SEA LIFE THERAPY conducted at the P. Pederzoli hospital in collaboration with Gardaland - Sea Life Aquarium and Merlin Magic Wand Italy. The project coordinator Dr. Matteo Sulpasso, head of the Operational Unit of Pediatric Surgery, formerly Professor of the Specialization School of Pediatric Surgery of the University

of Verona, who explains: “Thanks to the SEA LIFE THERAPY project, for the first time in Italy, an assisted therapy protocol will be studied on children with the support of a tropical freshwater aquarium, in order to use it as an antinociceptive (pain prevention) and non-pharmacological technique. The aim is to significantly raise the pain threshold but above all to break down anxiety and fear in the little ones in a natural way, to be able to subject them to even invasive tests without the use of supportive pharmacological therapies ”. (https: / / www.ospedalepederzoli.it /)

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