Visiting New York City is usually a traumatic experience for me...even if I'm able to hold it together just fine and leave sane. Wired has a good blog post [FULL ARTICLE] on some new research from Germany in a field that already has been studied with conclusive results before. Here are some key quotes:
"Compared to their rural counterparts, city dwellers have higher levels of anxiety and mood disorders. The schizophrenia risk of people raised in cities is almost double."
"Too much stress may ultimately alter the brain, leaving it ill-equipped to handle further stress and prone to mental illness."
"The city kids displayed heightened levels of activity in two brain regions: the amygdala, which is central to processing emotion and stress, and the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex, which regulates the amygdala. In short, city brains had disproportionately amplified responses to social stress. They’d become sensitized."
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