following grooming, feeding, and playing with a four-year-old poodle, scientists examined the brains of thirty participants and discovered that they “reported feeling significantly less fatigued, depressed and stressed after all dog-related activities”.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) was used to monitor the brain activity of 15 men and 15 women who were 20 years of age or older. The study’s findings were published in the journal Plos One.
Each of the group’s three-minute activities included meeting, playing with, feeding, grooming, massaging, taking pictures of, cuddling, and walking the “friendly and well-trained” female poodle.
When people played with and took walks with the dog, the EEG recorded alpha brainwaves, “reflecting a state of relaxed wakefulness,” according to researchers from Konkuk University in South Korea.
