The etiologic pathways leading to neuropsychiatric diseases remain poorly defined. As
genomic technologies have advanced over the past several decades, considerable …

A 406 VOLUME 115| NUMBER 8| August 2007• Environmental Health Perspectives injuries,
and nutritional deficiencies—but also consist of psychosocial conditions that relate to the …

Importance Climate change, pollution, urbanization, socioeconomic inequality, and
psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have caused massive changes in …

Background: To date, health-effects research on environmental stressors has rarely focused
on behavioral and mental health outcomes. That lack of research is beginning to change …

Intriguing findings on genetic and environmental causation suggest a need to reframe the
etiology of mental disorders. Molecular genetics shows that thousands of common and rare …

Decades of epidemiologic researchinto environmental factors in psychiatry have yielded
consistent findingsandidentifiedseveral (proxy) environmentalriskfactors associated with …

The environment influences brain and mental health, both detrimentally and beneficially.
Existing research has emphasised the individual psychosocial 'microenvironment'. Less …

There is both a biological and environmental component to the neural substrates for various
forms of psychopathology. Brain dysfunction itself not only constitutes a formidable liability to …

37 Racial groups within the United States show marked differences in prevalence rates for
38 numerous psychiatric disorders. Generally, minoritized racial groups tend to show lower …

The search for the genetic factors underlying complex neuropsychiatric disorders has
proceeded apace in the past decade. Despite some advances in identifying genetic variants …