Within the environMENTAL consortium, we published an article in Nature Mental Health on how mental health research can benefit from large-scale cohort studies and the enrichment of these datasets via macro- together with micro-environmental information, including data from digital tools such as StreetMind. Large population cohorts, such as UK bioba...
We published a new article together with colleagues from the environMental project on the topic of interactions between environment, brain and mental health. In this review article, we delve into recent technological and methodological development in mental health assessments, neuroimaging and environmental sensing. The paper provides an overv...
How does the environment near the coast affect people's well-being? When do people feel better in places and on paths, and why exactly? How are daily thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in your environment associated with mental well-being? We want to answer these and other questions with citizens of Kiel, in the north of Germany. If you live in Kiel...
StreetMind will be part of a follow-up assessment of the longitudinal project MARS. MARS has focused on the psychological development of children at risk for later psychopathology since the 1980s, with a new assessment starting in 2024. The "Mannheim Study of Children at Risk" (MARS) is an epidemiological and longitudinal cohort study. More than 30...
StreetMind will be implemented in three studies of the Horizon Europe project RESONATE (https://resonate-horizon.eu/).RESONATE aims to develop and investigate nature-based interventions in different environments across Europe. The three studies across Europe will test the effect of mindfulness-based interventions at urban coasts (Barcelona, Spain),...
The study "Virtropolis" uses StreetMind in combination with virtual reality to assess spatial learning and navigation in a novel environment. The study plans to assess ~40 adult participants in Mannheim (Germany), starting February 2024. How do we learn to navigate through a novel environment? And how does our everyday experience in this environmen...
Welcome to the IMAGEN cohort (https://imagen-project.org/), who is now starting with the StreetMind assessment across Europe. IMAGEN started in 2007 with >2.000 individuals that were between 14-16 years old at that time, and are now in their mid 20s. The cohort focuses on psychological, environmental and biological factors contributing to m...