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SUMMARY:Earth\, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Sh
 apes the Mind - Gunter Schumann\, Fudan University Shanghai\, and Charité
  University Medicine\, Berlin
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DTEND:20260116T180000Z
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CONTACT:Psychology Reception
DESCRIPTION:Rapid environmental change\, including climate extremes\, poll
 ution\, biodiversity loss\, accelerating urbanisation and widening social 
 inequalities\, profoundly affects brain and mental health across the lifes
 pan. The Horizon Europe–funded environMENTAL project investigates how la
 rge-scale environmental adversity shapes neurobiological mechanisms underl
 ying depression\, anxiety\, stress and substance misuse. Building on our w
 ork in IMAGEN and related cohorts\, where we identified quantitative neuro
 biological phenotypes\, predictive models\, stratification markers\, 3T/7T
  imaging augmentation and a digital twin brain model\, environMENTAL lever
 ages federated data from over one million European citizens combined with 
 deep behavioural and neuroimaging phenotyping. This enables modelling of h
 ow real-world exposures—such as living in cities—interact with genetic
  and psychosocial factors to influence brain networks\, stress biology and
  cognitive–emotional function. Complementing this scientific programme\,
  the Nature ‘Earth–Brain–Health Commission’ (EBHC) provides a syst
 ems framework linking environmental\, biological and social determinants o
 f mental health. It promotes interoperable infrastructures integrating sat
 ellite-based environmental data\, climate models\, digital health assessme
 nts and harmonised cohort information at a global level through data harmo
 nisation\, federated learning and explainable AI. Together\, environMENTAL
  and EBHC aim to develop mechanistic\, transdiagnostic models of environme
 ntal influence\, identify molecular targets for prevention\, and early int
 erventions at the individual and population level. \n\nHost: Prof Jeff Dal
 ley \n\nThis talk will be recorded and uploaded to the Zangwill Club "Yout
 ube channel":https://https://www.youtube.com/@zangwill_club in due course.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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