Childhood and adolescence are crucial periods for mental and social development.
Currently, mental illness among young people is a global epidemic, and rates of disorders …

Urbanicity–psychosis associations are heterogeneous and driven by multiple risk and
protective factors that seem to act differently in different ethnic groups and countries …

Due to the unexpected emergence of COVID-19, different cities improvised responses to
prevent the virus from spreading and infecting the population. Madrid, capital of Spain and …

The eleventh edition of Sociology of Mental Disorder presents the major issues and
research findings on the influence of race, social class, gender, and age on the incidence …

Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing 'mental
health'. Such an approach to the stunting of human mental life in conditions of adversity …

Urbanicity has long been associated with stress, anxiety, and mental disorders. A new field
of neurourbanism addresses these issues, applying neuroscience laboratory methods to …

Background Cities are becoming the socio-economic hubs for most of the world's
population. Understanding how our surroundings can mentally affect everyday life has …

This paper sets out the future potential and challenges for developing an interdisciplinary,
mixed-method Citizen Social Science approach to researching urban emotions. It focuses …

Urbanization is an ongoing global process that is influencing and shaping individual mental
health and well-being. This paper aims to provide an overview of the current literature …

Although rapid global urbanization improves people in many ways, it also increases the
prevalence of major mental disorders in urban communities. Exposure to natural …