In recent years, the term 'salutogenic'has become a buzzword for marketing architecture for
health and nursing care. The term was coined to describe a model for socioenvironmental …

Objectives: To perform a systematic study about the contribution of architecture and interior
design researchers in studying the effect of physical environment on mental disorders …

Following many years of effort of Alan Dilani and the International Academy of Design and
Health (Dilani, 2006, 2008), the term 'salutogenic'has made inroads to hospital design, and it …

Background: The environment is inextricably related to mental health. Recent research
replicates findings of a significant, linear correlation between a childhood exposure to the …

The finding that schizophrenia and other severe psychoses are largely urban phenomena
raises questions about why this is the case and how the physical environment affects the …

There is strong evidence that people with psychosis are highly responsive to environmental
changes. The institutional tradition has been blamed for chronic psychotic illness in the past …

The environment moderates behaviour using a subtle language of 'affordances' and
'behaviour-settings'. Affordances are environmental offerings. They are objects that demand …

Research in architecture, design, sociology and environmental psychology assists us to gain
insights into the interdependency between occupants and their settings. Theorists are drawn …

Introduction: Different types of hallucinations are symptomatic of different conditions.
Schizotypal hallucinations are unique in that they follow existing delusional narrative …

The way the brain processes perceptions of the physical environment is of interest in the
epidemiology of mental and behavioural health because of recent discoveries that have …