ArticleNature human behaviour2022
Global urbanicity is associated with brain and behaviour in young people.
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Jiayuan XuDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Xiaoxuan LiuMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1426-5056
Qiaojun LiCollege of Information Engineering, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3232-5526
Ran GoldblattNew Light Technologies Inc., Washington, DC, USA.
Wen QinDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Feng LiuDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3570-4222
Congying ChuCentre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, SGDP Centre, King's College London, London, UK.
Qiang LuoInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education-Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Alex IngCentre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, SGDP Centre, King's College London, London, UK.
Lining GuoDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Nana LiuDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Huaigui LiuDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Conghong HuangMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0180-0806
Jingliang ChengDepartment of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Meiyun WangDepartment of Radiology, Zhengzhou University People's Hospital and Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4454-5005
Zuojun GengDepartment of Medical Imaging, Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Wenzhen ZhuDepartment of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Bing ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Weihua LiaoDepartment of Radiology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Shijun QiuDepartment of Medical Imaging, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Hui ZhangDepartment of Radiology, The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.
Xiaojun XuDepartment of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0127-2812
Yongqiang YuDepartment of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
Bo GaoDepartment of Radiology, Affliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China.
Tong HanDepartment of Radiology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Guangbin CuiFunctional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province and Department of Radiology, Tangdu Hospital, Military Medical University of PLA Airforce (Fourth Military Medical University), Xi'an, China.
Feng ChenDepartment of Radiology, Hainan General Hospital, Haikou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9129-7895
Junfang XianDepartment of Radiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Jiance LiDepartment of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
Jing ZhangDepartment of Magnetic Resonance, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, Lanzhou, China.
Xi-Nian ZuoState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9110-585X
Dawei WangDepartment of Radiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Wen ShenDepartment of Radiology, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Yanwei MiaoDepartment of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
Fei YuanDepartment of Radiology, Pingjin Hospital, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Tianjin, China.
Su LuiDepartment of Radiology, Center for Medical Imaging, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-1769
Xiaochu ZhangDepartment of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Science, Division of Life Science and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-0130
Kai XuDepartment of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Longjiang ZhangDepartment of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6664-7224
Zhaoxiang YeDepartment of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Tobias BanaschewskiDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4595-1144
Gareth J BarkerDepartment of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5214-7421
Arun L W BokdeDiscipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0114-4914
Herta FlorDepartment of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Antoine GrigisNeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Hugh GaravanDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Penny GowlandSir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-4817
Andreas HeinzCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5405-9065
Rüdiger BrühlPhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany.
Jean-Luc MartinotEcole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, INSERM U1299 "Trajectoires Développementales & Psychiatrie", Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0136-0388
Eric ArtigesInstitut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM Unit 1000 Neuroimaging and Psychiatry, University Paris Sud, University Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité; Psychiatry Department 91G16, Orsay Hospital, Orsay, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4461-7646
Frauke NeesDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7796-8234
Dimitri Papadopoulos OrfanosNeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1242-8990
Herve LemaitreInstitute National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, UMR 992 INSERM, CEA, Faculté de médecine, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay NeuroSpin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Tomáš PausDepartments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1495-9338
Luise PoustkaDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Lauren RobinsonDepartment of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Sarah HohmannDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Juliane H FröhnerDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8493-6396
Michael N SmolkaDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5398-5569
Henrik WalterCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9403-6121
Robert WhelanSchool of Psychology and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-7281
Jeanne WintererDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Kevin PatrickCenter for Wireless and Population Health Systems, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and Calit2's Qualcomm Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7334-3042
Vince CalhounTri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9058-0747
Mulin Jun LiCollaborative Innovation Center of Tianjin for Medical Epigenetics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, Department of Pharmacology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Meng LiangSchool of Medical Imaging and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, P. R. China.
Peng GongMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1513-3765
Edward D BarkerDepartment of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9914-8958
Nicholas ClintonGoogle, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-1006
Andre MarquandPredictive Clinical Neuroscience Group at the Donders Institute, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Le YuMinistry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3115-2042
Chunshui YuDepartment of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, P. R. China. chunshuiyu@tmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5648-5199
Gunter SchumannCentre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-Inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China. gunter.schumann1961@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7740-6469
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Funding
Training U54EB020403 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI THOMPSON, PAUL M · 2014 to 2018
$10.1MAxon, Testosterone and Mental Health during AdolescenceR01MH085772 · NIMH · BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE · PI PAUS, TOMAS · 2010 to 2014
$1.5MMedical Research Council MR/N000390/1Medical Research Council MR/R00465X/1Medical Research Council MR/S020306/1NIBIB NIH HHS U54 EB020403NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH085772
Abstract
Urbanicity is a growing environmental challenge for mental health. Here, we investigate correlations of urbanicity with brain structure and function, neuropsychology and mental illness symptoms in young people from China and Europe (total n = 3,867). We developed a remote-sensing satellite measure (UrbanSat) to quantify population density at any point on Earth. UrbanSat estimates of urbanicity were correlated with brain volume, cortical surface area and brain network connectivity in the medial prefrontal cortex and cerebellum. UrbanSat was also associated with perspective-taking and depression symptoms, and this was mediated by neural variables. Urbanicity effects were greatest when urban exposure occurred in childhood for the cerebellum, and from childhood to adolescence for the prefrontal cortex. As UrbanSat can be generalized to different geographies, it may enable assessments of correlations of urbanicity with mental illness and resilience globally.
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