Psychogeographie
Die epidemiologische Forschung in der Psychiatrie der letzten Jahrzehnte hat klare Anhaltspunkte für Umweltrisikofaktoren für psychische Krankheiten wie affektive Störungen (u.a. Depression), Angst- und Abhängigkeitsstörungen ergeben, die stark mit Merkmalen der Lebenswelt zusammenhängen. In diesem Forschungsprojekt sollen Geodaten erhoben und Karten erstellt werden, die Faktoren mit potentieller Relevanz für die psychische Gesundheit in Abhängigkeit von der Urbanität (Städtischer Stress) darstellen.
Um Zusammenhänge zwischen entsprechenden Krankheiten und Sozial- und Umweltfaktoren genauer raumbezogen analysieren zu können, müssen heterogene räumliche Daten aus öffentlichen, privaten und crowdsourcing-Quellen erhoben und integriert werden. Ziel ist eine homogene räumliche Datenbank mit den relevanten Attributen für Umwelt (z.B. Lärm, Luftqualität, Grünflächen) und sozioökonomische (z.B. Bevölkerungsdichte, Lärm, Kriminalität, Migrations- und Arbeitslosenquote) Faktoren. Hierfür müssen die heterogenen räumlichen und statistischen Informationen aus den unterschiedlichen Datenquellen (lokale Administration, privater Sektor, akademisch, Crowdsourcing) georeferenziert, geokodiert, qualitätskontrolliert und transformiert werden und in ein gemeinsames räumliches Referenzsystem projiziert werden. Dies liefert eine homogene Geodatenbank sowohl für Rohdaten als auch für abgeleitete Indikatoren mit der maximalen Konsistenz und Genauigkeit für die Studienregion Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Mannheim, Heidelberg und Ludwigshafen.
Die Effekte der Risikofaktoren auf die Entwicklung psychischer Erkrankungen werden dann im Projekt auf dieser Datenbasis berechnet und mit Probandendaten, die von den Projektpartnern anhand von Fragebögen erfasst werden, räumlich korreliert.
Ausgewählte Publicationen:- Reichert M., Giurgiu M., Koch E., Wieland L. M., Lautenbach S., Neubauer A. B., von Haaren-Mack B., Schilling R., Timm I., Notthoff N., Marzi I., Hill H., Brüßler S., Eckert T., Fiedler J., Burchartz A., Anedda B., Wunsch K., Gerber M., Jekauc D., Woll A., Dunton G. F., Kanning M., Nigg C. R., Ebner-Priemer U., Liao Y. (2020): Ambulatory assessment for physical activity research: State of the science, best practices and future directions, Psychology of Sport & Exercise, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101742.
- Reichert, M., Braun, U., Lautenbach, S., Zipf, A., Ebner-Priemer, U., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2020): Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life: methodological developments, state-of-the-art and technological frontiers. Current Opinion in Psychology 32, 158-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.026
- Tost, H., Reichert, M., Braun, U., Reinhard, I., Peters, R., Lautenbach, S., Hoell, A., Schwarz, E., Ebner-Priemer, U., Zipf, A., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., 2019. Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0451-y
- Reichert, M., Tost, H., Reinhard, I., Schlotz, W., Zipf, A., Salize, H.-J., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2017). Exercise vs. non-exercise activity: e-diaries unravel distinct effects on mood. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 49(4): 763-773.
- Reichert, M., Tost, H., Reinhard, I., Zipf, A., Salize, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Ebner-Priemer, U.W. (2016): Within-subject associations between mood dimensions and non-exercise activity: An ambulatory assessment approach using repeated real-time and objective data. Frontiers in Psychology. 7:918. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00918
- Törnros, T., Dorn, H., Reichert, M., Ebner-Priemer, U., Salize, H.-J., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Zipf, A. (2016): A comparison of temporal and location-based sampling strategies for GPS-triggered electronic diaries." Geospatial Health. Vol 11, No 3. DOI:10.4081/gh.2016.473.
- Reichert, M., Törnros, T., Hoell, A., Dorn, H., Tost, H., Salize, H.-J., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Zipf, A., Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2016). Using Ambulatory Assessment for experience sampling and the mapping of environmental risk factors in everyday life. Die Psychiatrie. 2/2016. 94-102. (pdf)
- Dorn, H., Törnros, T. & Zipf, A. (2015): Quality Evaluation of VGI using Authoritative Data – A Comparison with Land Use Data in Southern Germany. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. Vol 4(3), pp. 1657-1671, doi: 10.3390/ijgi4031657
- Törnros, T., Dorn, H., Hahmann, S., and Zipf, A. (2015): Uncertainties of completeness measures in OpenStreetMap - A Case Study for buildings in a medium-sized German city, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., II-3/W5, 353-357, doi:10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W5-353-2015.
- Dorn, H., Törnros, T., Reichert, M., Salize, H.J., Tost, H., Ebner-Priemer, U., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Zipf, A. (2015): Incorporating Land Use in a Spatiotemporal Trigger for Ecological Momentary Assessments. In: Car, A., Jekel, T., Strobl, J., Griesebner, G. (Eds.), GI_Forum 2015 – Geospatial Minds for Society (pp. 113-116). Journal for Geographic Information Science, 1.
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We call for applications to postdoctoral positions within the Heidelberg Mannheim Health and Life Science Alliance “Innovation Campus” for Inter-institutional project. The Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI), Prof. A. Meyer-Lindenberg, the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University (Prof. A. Zipf), the 3DGeo Group (Prof. B. Höfle); and the Department of Biodiversity and Plant Systematics […]
Eine in Science Advances veröffentlichte Studie liefert neue Erkenntnisse zum Zusammenhang von körperlicher Aktivität und Wohlbefinden im Alltag. Dazu wurde unter anderem untersucht, welche Hirnregionen dabei eine Rolle spielen. Körperliche Aktivität macht glücklich und ist wichtig, um auch psychisch gesund zu bleiben. Forscherinnen und Forscher des Zentralinstituts für Seelische Gesundheit (ZI) in Mannheim, des Karlsruher […]
GIScience methods are becoming more and more widespread in different domains. A current review article under involvement of HeiGIT researchers discusses the potential of ambulatory assessments and GIScience approaches for physical activity research. The article is on of the outcomes of the 2nd International CAPA Workshop 2019 “Physical Activity Assessment – State of the Science, […]
Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of the multiple factors of urban living convey risk and resilience for mental disorders. For example, […]
Rapid worldwide urbanization benefits humans in many aspects, but the prevalence of common psychiatric disorders is increased in urban populations. While the impact of city living and urban upbringing on mental health is well established, it remains elusive which of the multiple factors of urban living convey risk and resilience for mental disorders. For example, […]
Noise pollution is a growing problem in many urban environments, affecting citizens’ daily life. It can reduce citizens’ happiness, increase their stress, and even people them get sick if they are exposed to noise pollution for a long period of time. In recent studies we investigate the use of crowdsourced data to derive noise polluted […]
Research in psychology and public health shows that there are environmental factors that cause an area to impose more or less stress to a person. One example is that being surrounded by natural green areas (meadows, parks, trees and forests etc. or also blue water areas) has a relaxing influence to the mood of a […]
Self-reporting is a well-established approach within the medical and psychological sciences. In order to avoid recall bias, i.e. past events being remembered inaccurately, the reports can be filled out on a smartphone in real-time and in the natural environment. This is often referred to as ambulatory assessment and the reports are usually triggered at regular […]
Recently some more publications have been accepted or have been published online that present some further results from our joint project on Psychogeography together with our partners from ZI Mannheim and KIT: In particular the following overview paper about the project is now available as free pdf online: Reichert, M., Törnros, T., Hoell, A., Dorn, […]
Psychiatric research is increasingly interested in the influence of social and environmental contexts on human health. According to recent findings, specific impacts of urban upbringing on neural social stress processing relate to the heightened prevalence of mental disorders in cities. Although this is a major societal problem, it remains unknown which environmental components (e.g., psychosocial […]