1. Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults
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Xu, Jiayuan, Liu, Nana, Polemiti, E., Garcia-Mondragon, L., Tang, J., Liu, Xiaoxuan, Lett, T., Yu, L., Nöthen, M.M., Feng, J., Yu, C., Marquand, A.F., and Schumann, G.
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All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center ,Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7] - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 294252.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Urban-living individuals are exposed to many environmental factors that may combine and interact to influence mental health. While individual factors of an urban environment have been investigated in isolation, no attempt has been made to model how complex, real-life exposure to living in the city relates to brain and mental health, and how this is moderated by genetic factors. Using the data of 156,075 participants from the UK Biobank, we carried out sparse canonical correlation analyses to investigate the relationships between urban environments and psychiatric symptoms. We found an environmental profile of social deprivation, air pollution, street network and urban land-use density that was positively correlated with an affective symptom group (r = 0.22, P(perm)
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- 2023