Publications by authors named "Achilleas Psyllidis"
Mental disorders among children and adolescents pose a significant global challenge. The exposome framework covering the totality of internal, social and physical exposures over a lifetime provides opportunities to better understand the causes of and processes related to mental health, and cognitive functioning. The paper presents a conceptual framework on exposome, mental health, and cognitive development in children and adolescents, with potential mediating pathways, providing a possibility for interventions along the life course.
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- This commentary discusses the significance of points of interest (POIs) as digital spatial datasets and their essential role across various research areas.
- It highlights the need for high-quality POI features, particularly in terms of spatial coverage, category, and temporality, to ensure reliable data for analysis.
- The authors also identify challenges related to POI geolocation, spatial representation, data fidelity, and attributes, and explain how these issues can impact the outcomes of geospatial studies in fields like public health, urban planning, and sociology.
Background: There is increasing evidence that a complex interplay of factors within environments in which children grows up, contributes to children's suboptimal mental health and cognitive development. The concept of the life-course exposome helps to study the impact of the physical and social environment, including social inequities, on cognitive development and mental health over time.
Methods: Equal-Life develops and tests combined exposures and their effects on children's mental health and cognitive development.