Evidence of a dose-response relationship between urbanicity during upbringing and schizophrenia risk.

By Carsten B. Pedersen, P. Mortensen. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2001

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Interacting with Nature Improves Cognition and Affect for Individuals with Depression (2012, positive): “, 2011) and increase psychopathology (Krabbendam and van Os, 2005; Pedersen and Mortensen, 2001; Peen et al., 2010; van Os et al., 2010).”
Gene-environment interplay and psychopathology: multiple varieties but real effects. (2006, background): “…2004), including heavy early use of cannabis (Arseneault, Cannon, Witton, & Murray, 2004; Henquet et al., 2005), rearing in an urban environment (Pedersen & Mortenson, 2001; van Os, Pedersen, & Mortensen, 2004), and the stresses of living in the UK or Netherlands for individuals from an…”
The Danish Civil Registration System. A cohort of eight million persons. (2006, methodology): “: a) disease or death in family members (6, 7), b) place of birth and residence (8), c) immigration (9) and emigration, e) foreign adoptions (10), f) environmental exposures at place of residence (11, 12), g) the geographical distance to environmental exposures (13), h) fertility (14), and i) sibshi”
The Danish Civil Registration System (2011, methodology): “Usually, in register-based research, siblings are identified as persons having the same mother (see e.g. (6, 8 , 13, 15, 16, 20, 21)).”
Schizophrenia and migration: a meta-analysis and review. (2005, background): “A unifying hypothesis concerning migrants should also be able to explain the risk for schizophrenia associated with internal migration to areas of increased urbanization (39) and the protective effect of ethnic density, i.”
The current status of urban‐rural differences in psychiatric disorders (2010, background): “In line with studies examining the association between the urban environment and schizophrenia (29), we found that the urban environment appears to be associated with mental health.”