City living affects neural social stress processing in humans

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7352/full/nature10190.html

by wslh • 15 years ago

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pasbesoin• 15 years ago

Maybe it's just age, but I feel a lot of recent "discoveries" regarding stress, the importance of the natural environment in one's well being, etc., I was figuring out for myself 20 years ago.

I hope maybe it will reverse some of the trends that have created a lot of stress in my own life. (E.g. noisy cube farms and crappy fluorescent lights, I'm looking at you.)

baguasquirrel• 15 years ago

until a scientist runs the experiment, it could be said that our wisdom is anecdotal. that having been said, I don't think you should wait for science if you know from experience what's right.

Tichy• 15 years ago

Could somebody translate - is living in cities more stressful or less stressful? I suppose more stressful, but I can't discern it from the writing here.

Or is it just stressful in a different way than living in the countryside?

_delirium• 15 years ago

More stressful, though the linked study isn't focused on showing that either way--- it takes the city/rural stress difference as an assumption from previous work, and is focused here on looking at neural correlates that might explain it (or at least be associated with or somehow mediate the process).

mkelly• 15 years ago

Did anyone who has a subscription read this? Any thoughts?

It looks interesting, but not $32 interesting, to me.

City living affects neural social stress processing in humans

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