How the environment affects mental health

How the environment affects mental health.

The Designed Environment and How it Affects Brain Morphology and Mental Health.

BACKGROUND The environment is inextricably related to mental health. Recent research replicates findings of a significant, linear correlation between a childhood exposure to the urban environment and psychosis. Related studies also correlate the urban environment and aberrant brain morphologies. These findings challenge common beliefs that the mind and brain remain neutral in the face of worldl...

How the Nonextensivity Parameter Affects Energy Fluctuations

In this article, the effect of the nonextensivity parameter on the energy fluctuations of nonextensive systems is studied in two different versions of the Tsallis statistical mechanics. Once a general expression has been reported for the energy fluctuations in the second version (Tsallis work in 1988), the energy fluctuations of an ideal gas and a harmonic oscillator are studied in the second a...

Mental Health and Environment

Research begins with a question. The authors chose a large one. This wa5,; g their own words: "How far is mental illness due to deep-seated causes, patter", | into the mind by genetic factors or powerful experiences of early environ^f. j within the uterus or in the first years of life? And how far is it due to the imm^'3 environment of house and family, work and community?" I In medicine and th...

How IEQ Affects Health, Productivity

his article, a summary of Fisk,1,2 estimates the nationwide improvements in health and productivity potentially attainable by providing better indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in U.S. buildings. Estimates include the potential reductions in three categories of health effects, the associated economic benefits, and the potential direct improvements in productivity not mediated through health.