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A wide range of determinants of mental health have been identified in the literature: age, gender, ethnicity, family upbringing and early attachment patterns, social support, access to food, water and proper nutrition, and community factors.
At the Mental Health Foundation, we know that mental health is complex and our wellbeing is determined by a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors: Biological factors, e.g. physical health, genetics, diet, sleep, age; Psychological factors, e.g. beliefs, mental health diagnoses, perception, addictions
What Biological Factors Are Involved in Mental Illness? Some mental illnesses have been linked to abnormal functioning of nerve cell circuits or pathways that connect particular brain...
Certain genes, along with biological and environmental factors, can be associated with mental disorders, which are health conditions that can affect how you think, feel, and cope with life. How do genes affect your mental health?
This article focuses on many of the nature- or person-related aspects; meaning the genetic, psychological, and biological factors that can influence mental health. The next article will focus on a range of nurture- or environment-related aspects, meaning the exposures and experiences from conception onwards that can influence mental health.
In his view, the roots of mental illnesses, such as anxiety and depression, lie in essential functions that evolved as building blocks of adaptive behavioural and cognitive function.
In this chapter, we have documented associations between stressors and disease and have described how endocrine-immune interactions appear to mediate the relationship. We have also described how psychosocial stressors influence mental health and how psychosocial treatments may ameliorate both mental and physical disorders.
An individual’s mental health state can also be influenced by genetic and biological factors; that is, determinants that persons are born or endowed with, including chromosomal abnormalities (e.g. Down's syndrome) and intellectual disability caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol or oxygen deprivation at birth.
This study aims to investigate combining an extensive range of lifestyle factors, including alcohol consumption, diet, physical activity, sleep, smoking, sedentary behavior and social...
We identify lifestyle and environmental factors, including exercise, sedentary behavior, diet, sleep quality, smoking, alcohol intake, education and socioeconomic status...