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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA_ https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807504116 Kristine Engemann, of Aarhus University, and colleagues find that, for

>900,000 Danish participants, their exposure to green environments up to the age of 10 years was significantly associated with their risk of later developing psychological disorders. The

green area around participants’ childhood homes was calculated from historical satellite imagery and compared with data on participants’ mental health outcomes, controlling for urbanization,

socioeconomic and parental factors. Growing up in the least green environments was associated with a 15–55% greater risk across psychological disorders—except for intellectual disability

and schizoaffective disorders—compared to those living in the greenest locations. The association was strongest for mood, depression, neurotic, stress-related and somatic disorders, and it

appeared to show a dose–response relationship between greater years of green exposure and lower mental health risk. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

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permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Carson, J. Healthful green minds. _Nat Hum Behav_ 3, 419 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0580-z Download citation * Published: 04

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