ReviewBrain, behavior, & immunity - health2025
What is the relationship between exposure to environmental pollutants and severe mental disorders? A systematic review on shared biological pathways.
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- Association between household environment and the risk of depression and anxiety among women in Bangladesh: analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (2022).The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2026Article
- From Air to Brain: Environmental Nanoparticles as Modifiable Risk Factors for Neurodevelopmental, Neurodegenerative, and Mental Disorders.ACS omega · 2026Review
- Independent and interactive effects of wet bulb globe temperature and air pollution exposures on suicide mortality.Environment international · 2026Article
- CD4Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Ascertaining Household-Level Exposure to Air Pollution: Socio-Demographic Patterning and Urban-Rural Differences in People with Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders and the General Population.International journal of population data science · 2026Article
- Are Pollution and Climate Change Potential Factors in the Development of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?Alpha psychiatry · 2025Article
- Awareness of mental disorders and their risk factors - a nationwide cross-sectional survey among adults in Poland.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Atmospheric carbon monoxide and hospitalization for mental and behavioral disorders: insights from a longitudinal study in Shijiazhuang.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Lifestyle and psychosocial predictors of health resilience among Indonesian disaster preparedness cadres (TAGANA): a machine learning approach.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
Severe mental disorders are multi-dimensional constructs, resulting from the interaction of genetic, biological, psychosocial, and environmental factors. Among the latter, pollution and climate change are frequently being considered in the etiopathogenesis of severe mental disorders. This systematic review aims to investigate the biological mechanisms behind the relationship between environmental pollutants, climate change, and mental disorders. An extensive literature search was performed on PubMed, Scopus, and APA PsycInfo databases according to the PRISMA guidelines. Articles were considered eligible if they involved humans or animals examining the association between exposure to environmental pollutants and if the resulting biological mechanisms that may have an impact on mental health and may support or even cause severe mental disorders (SMD) are assessed. For this reason, only studies dealing with biomarkers or biological pathways were taken into account. The 47 papers included in the review were divided into two groups: those conducted on human participants (15 studies) and those utilizing animal models (31 studies); one study included both humans and animals. Studies carried out with humans, which are mainly focused on measuring the impact of particulate matter (PM
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