The urban brain: new directions in research exploring the relation between cities and mood–anxiety disorders
✍ Scribed by Sandro Galea
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 95 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
- DOI
- 10.1002/da.20868
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✦ Synopsis
Galea's primary research has been on the causes of mental disorders, particularly common mood-anxiety disorders and substance abuse, and on the role of traumatic events in shaping population health. His research program seeks to uncover how determinants at multiple levels of influenceincluding policies, features of the social environment, molecular, and genetic factors-jointly produce the health of urban populations. Dr. Galea has conducted large population-based studies in several countries worldwide including the US, Spain, Israel, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Liberia, primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Galea's interest in the complex etiology of health and disease has led him to work that explores innovative methodological approaches to population health questions primarily funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Health