Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults

Abstract 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…

• AV
  Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
• GO
  Government of the United Kingdom
• UR
  UK Research and Innovation
• EC
  European Commission

  Awards: 695313, 101057429, 945539
• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 82150710554, 82202093, 82001797, TJYXZDXK-001A, 82030053
• TU
  Tsinghua University

  Award: 2021Z11GHX002
• TM
  Tianjin Medical University
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: 945539, R01DA049238
• HE
  HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme

  Award: 945539
• EU
  EarthLab, University of Washington
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Awards: 2018YFC1314301, 2022YFE0209400