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We conduct research on the exposome's influence on children's mental health, spanning the disciplines of environmental science, pediatric psychology, and public health.

 

We focus on understanding specific environmental triggers, early intervention, long-term impacts, data visualization, child-centric approaches, and scientific exploration of underlying mechanisms.

Our Research

Year
Title
Journal/conference/book
2021
A concept to evaluate activity-based acoustic settings in primary schools appropriate for children's hearing
13th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
A new approach for measuring space-time-activity-exposure patterns of children
13th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem. 15-18 June 2022
2022
Traffic noise and children's health: New insights from a machine learning algorithm?
Proceedings of the Inter-Noise 2022. Glasgow, Scotland.
2022
A Holistic Approach to Urban and Children’s Mental Health.
EPH November 2022
2022
Challenges and methods to design a dual-task experiment in spatial auditory environments for young children aged three to six years old
Fortschritte Der Akustik - DAGA 2022. DAGA 2022, Stuttgart, Germany
2022
Co-accessibility of public spaces: towards age-inclusive and accessible public spaces
EHEN meeting 2022
2022
Comparing perspectives on research needs from stakeholders vs. researchers in an exposome project.
European Public Health Conference
2022
Connecting science with policy through stakeholder’s involvement for better mental health of children.
EHEN meeting 2022
2022
Designing a composite indicator for sleep with emphasis on children
Proceedings of ICA, 24-27 October 2022, Gyeongju, South Korea
2022
Equity considerations in interventions within Equal-Life: development of a logic model framework for assessing the equity impacts of urban interventions
EHEN meeting 2022
2022
Ethics of Early Detection of Health Determinants to Predict Health Outcomes: Relevance for the Human Exposome
16th World Congress of Bioethics on July 22 in Basel Switzerland
2022
Human Exposome Ethical considerations
4TU Ethics bi-annual conference on Ethics and Technolog
2022
Involving stakeholders in noise research projects: Towards a holistic approach for interaction between scientific and practical considerations
Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA)
2022
Measuring urban greenspace accessibility from mobile settings
EHEN meeting 2022
2022
Moving from exposome science to intervention practice: digital toolbox creation to support activities in the field of children’s mental health and cognitive development
EHEN meeting 2022
2022
Prenatal, early-life, and childhood exposure to source-specific air pollution and behavioural problems in the ALSPAC cohort
34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 8-21 September 2022
2022
Reflections about the assessment of short-term noise annoyance
Proceedings of ICA, 24-27 October 2022, Gyeongju, South Korea
2022
Social inequalities in the Exposome and achieving equity; What are we thinking about in Equal-Life?
EHEN WG on Ethics & Legal Issues, September 2021.
2022
Stakeholders involvement in identification of research and policy needs for children’s environment and mental health.
European Public Health conference
2022
The relevance of the number of aircraft events for children’s cognition: Further evidence from a machine learning algorithm
Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA)
2022
Urban advanced noise indicator mapping relying on street categorization and measurements
Proceedings of Internoise 2022.
2022
Variable importance: A data-driven search for exposome features that affect child development.
EHEN meeting 2022
2022
mental health biomarker work
EHEN meeting 2022
2023
A Listening Experiment to Study Intentional Switching of Auditory Selective Attention in Preschool Children
International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic.
2023
A concept to evaluate activity-based acoustic settings in preschools for children aged three to six
Inter-noise 2023, Chiba, Japan.
2023
A concept to evaluate activity-based acoustic settings in preschools for children aged three to six
Proceedings of Inter-Noise 2023. Inter-noise 2023, Chiba, Japan
2023
A field investigation on associations between environmental noise and adolescent sleep: An Equal-Life study
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
A laboratory experiment exploring the effect of chronic- and background noise on cognitive performance and motivation
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
Assessing Listening Effort in Children: A Child-Appropriate DualTask Paradigm Investigating the Influence of Different Noise Conditions. Acoustics
Acoustics 2023, Sydney, Australia.
2023
Assessing universal access to urban greenspaces: what indicators should be used when?
WHO European Healthy Cities Annual Business Meeting and Technical Conference.
2023
Design of a child-appropriate dual-task paradigm examining the influence of different noise conditions on listening effort in adults
Proceeding of Forum Acusticum 2023. Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy.
2023
Easy as child’s play? Co-designing a network-based metric for children’s access to play space
18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM 2023
2023
Equity Impact Assessment bei Interventionen der Stadtplanung. Fallstudien in der Stadt Utrecht im Rahmen des EU-Projekts Equal-Life
Healthy city Bremen
2023
Europe-wide road traffic noise modelling using a harmonized methodological framework (CNOSSOS-EU). EGU23-9249, 2023
EGU general assembly 2023
2023
Exploring the linkage of noise and mental health among adolescents – An Equal-Life study
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
Eyes on the street: Estimating natural surveillance along Amsterdam city streets using street-level imagery
Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning through Big Data and Urban Analytics
2023
Implementation of the Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC in Slovenia seen through an equity lens
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
Investigating Intentional Switching of Spatial Auditory Selective Attention in an Experiment with Preschool children
Fortschritte Der Akustik - DAGA 2023. DAGA 2023, Hamburg, Germany
2023
Is it safe to be attractive? Disentangling the influence of streetscape features on the perceived safety and attractiveness of city streets
26th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2023
2023
Linking adolescent BMI trajectories to the proteome reveals the complexity of the internal exposome: a multi-omics longitudinal twin study
consortium meeting
2023
Logic Model for Equity Impact Assessment from a public health perspective: Application to urban planning initiatives
WHO European Healthy Cities Annual Business Meeting and Technical Conference.
2023
Longitudinal multi-omics study reveals common etiology underlying association between plasma proteome and BMI trajectories in adolescent and young adult twins
Nordic EMBL meeting 11-14 September Otaniemi (Espoo) Finland
2023
Longitudinal multi-omics study reveals common etiology underlying association between plasma proteome and BMI trajectories in adolescent and young adult twins
EMBL Nording Partnership meeting, Helsinki, 13-15 September
2023
Noise indicators for sleep disturbance and how to model them.
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem. 18-22.6.2023
2023
Plasma proteomics discovery of mental health risk biomarkers in adolescents
Symposium on Computational Biology (CompBio) Kuopio, Nov 10
2023
Relationship between the external exposome and proteome linked to mental health risk in adolescents
Exposome NL conference 17 November, Utrecht, NL
2023
Speech Transmission Index Measured using Adult and Children Head and Torso Simulators
Proceeding of Forum Acusticum 2023. Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy
2023
Speech-in-noise perception and phonological awareness in preschool children
Conference of the Developmental Psychology Group of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), September 2023, Berlin.
2023
Speech-perception in noise and phonological awareness in preschoolers
Conference of the Developmental Psychology Group of German Psychological Society, Berlin
2023
Stakeholder involvement in research on health impact of environmental exposure
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
Stakeholders’ views about the environmental noise impact on children’s and adolescents’ health and cognitive development
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
Systematic evaluation of the environmental effect on depressive symptoms: exposome-wide association study and twin modeling
page 887 - 35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Kaohsiung, 2023
2023
The Walnuts cohort: cognitive effects of a nutritional intervention and exploring biomarkers for mental health risk in teenagers
EHEN Scientific meeting Leuven , May 31
2023
The association of depressive symptoms with perceived occupational noise exposure in young adults.
16th European Public Health Conference 2023, Dublin, Ireland, 8-11 November 2023.
2023
Towards designing healthy and sustainable cities: what factors affect access to public spaces and for whom?
WHO European Healthy Cities Annual Business Meeting and Technical Conference.
2023
Using behavioural patterns to measure exposome and its effects on mental health and wellbeing.
Exposome NL conference 17 November, Utrecht, NL
2023
Walking interviews as a qualitative method of assessing environmental noise perception of preschool children
14th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem: 18-22 June 2023
2023
a nutritional intervention and cognitive function in behalf of Equal-Life
EHEN meeting 2023
2023
oral presentation
EHEN meeting 2023

Scientific Publications

Year
Title
Authors
2021
Assessing the influence of point-of-interest features on the classification of place categories
Milias, Vasileios; Psyllidis, Achilleas
2021
Ketone body 3-hydroxybutyrate as a biomarker of aggression
Whipp, A. M.; Vuoksimaa, E.; Korhonen, T.; Pool, R.; But, A.; Ligthart, L.; Hagenbeek, F. A.; Bartels, M.; Bogl, L. H.; Pulkkinen, L.; Rose, R. J.; Boomsma, D. I.; Kaprio, J.
2022
Age at Separation of Twin Pairs in the FinnTwin12 Study
Wang, Zhiyang; Whipp, Alyce; Heinonen-Guzejev, Marja; Kaprio, Jaakko
2022
Branched-chain amino acids linked to depression in young adults
Whipp, Alyce M.; Heinonen-Guzejev, Marja; PietilŠinen, Kirsi H.; Van Kamp, Irene; Kaprio, Jaakko
2022
Early environmental quality and life-course mental health effects: The Equal-Life project
Kamp, Irene Van; Persson Waye, Kerstin; Kanninen, Katja; Gulliver, John; Bozzon, Alessandro; Psyllidis, Achilleas; Boshuizen, Hendriek; Selander, Jenny; Van Den Hazel, Peter; Brambilla, Marco; Foraster, Maria; Julvez, Jordi; Klatte, Maria; Jeram, Sonja; Lercher, Peter; Botteldooren, Dick; Ristovska, Gordana; Kaprio, Jaakko; Schreckenberg, Dirk; Hornikx, Maarten; Fels, Janina; Weber, Miriam; Braat-Eggen, Ella; Hartmann, Julia; Clark, Charlotte; Vrijkotte, Tanja; Brown, Lex; Bolte, Gabriele; Equal-Life Scientific Team
2022
Home gardens and distances to nature associated with behavior problems in alpine schoolchildren: Role of secondhand smoke exposure and biomarkers
Dzhambov, Angel M.; Lercher, Peter; RŸdisser, Johannes; Browning, Matthew H.E.M.; Markevych, Iana
2022
Measuring spatial age segregation through the lens of co-accessibility to urban activities
Milias, Vasileios; Psyllidis, Achilleas
2022
Noise Indicators Relating to Non-Auditory Health Effects in ChildrenÑA Systematic Literature Review
Terzakis, Michail Evangelos; Dohmen, Maud; Van Kamp, Irene; Hornikx, Maarten
2022
The Effects of Noise on Cognitive Performance and Helplessness in Childhood: A Review
Dohmen, Maud; Braat-Eggen, Ella; Kemperman, Astrid; Hornikx, Maarten
2022
Toward Child-Appropriate Acoustic Measurement Methods in Primary Schools and Daycare Centers
Loh, Karin; Yadav, Manuj; Persson Waye, Kerstin; Klatte, Maria; Fels, Janina
2023
Adopting a child perspective for exposome research on mental health and cognitive development - Conceptualisation and opportunities.
Person Waye, Kerstin; Lšve, Jesper; Lercher, Peter; Dzhambov, Angel M.; Klatte, Maria; Schreckenberg, Dirk; Belke, Christin; Leist, Larisa; Ristovska, Gordana; Jeram, Sonja; Kanninen, Katja M.; Selander, Jenny; Arat, Arzu; Lachmann, Thomas; Clark, Charlotte; Botteldooren, Dick; White, Kim; Julvez, Jordi; Foraster, Maria; Kaprio, Jaakko; Bolte, Gabriele; Psyllidis, Achilleas; Gulliver, John; Boshuizen, Hendriek; Bozzon, Alessandro; Fels, Janina; Hornikx, Maarten; Van Den Hazel, Peter; Weber, Miriam; Brambilla, Marco; Braat-Eggen, Ella; Van Kamp, Irene; Vincens, Natalia
2023
Advanced noise indicator mapping relying on a city microphone network.Ê
Van Renterghem, T., Le Bescond, V., Dekoninck, L., & Botteldooren, D.
2023
Childhood sound disturbance and sleep problems in Alpine valleys with high levels of traffic exposures and greenspace
Angel M. Dzhambov, Peter Lercher, Dick Botteldooren
2023
Fast noise mapping: A machine learning approach for predicting traffic noise indicators
Botteldooren, D.
2023
Integrating the social environment with an equity perspective into the exposome paradigm: A new conceptual framework of the Social Exposome
Gudi-Mindermann, Helene; White, Maddie; Roczen, Jana; Riedel, Natalie; Dreger, Stefanie; Bolte, Gabriele
2023
Measuring children's and adolescents' accessibility to greenspaces from different locations and commuting settings
Teeuwen, Roos; Psyllidis, Achilleas; Bozzon, Alessandro
2023
Perceived Occupational Noise Exposure and Depression in Young Finnish Adults
Heinonen-Guzejev, Marja; Whipp, Alyce M.; Wang, Zhiyang; Ranjit, Anu; Palviainen, Teemu; Van Kamp, Irene; Kaprio, Jaakko
2023
Plasma proteomics discovery of mental health risk biomarkers in adolescents
De Sousa Maciel, Izaque; Piironen, Aino-Kaisa; Afonin, Alexey M.; Ivanova, Mariia; Alatalo, Arto; Jadhav, Kaustubh Kishor; Julvez, Jordi; Foraster, Maria; Van Kamp, Irene; Kanninen, Katja M.
2023
Protective effect of restorative possibilities on cognitive function and mental health in children and adolescents: A scoping review including the role of physical activity
Dzhambov, Angel M.; Lercher, Peter; Vincens, Natalia; Persson Waye, Kerstin; Klatte, Maria; Leist, Larisa; Lachmann, Thomas; Schreckenberg, Dirk; Belke, Christin; Ristovska, Gordana; Kanninen, Katja M.; Botteldooren, Dick; Van Renterghem, Timothy; Jeram, Sonja; Selander, Jenny; Arat, Arzu; White, Kim; Julvez, Jordi; Clark, Charlotte; Foraster, Maria; Van Kamp, Irene
2023
Proteomic insights into mental health status: plasma markers in young adults
Afonin, Alexey M.; Piironen, Aino-Kaisa; De Sousa Maciel, Izaque; Ivanova, Mariia; Alatalo, Arto; Whipp, Alyce M; Pulkkinen, Lea; Rose, Richard J; Van Kamp, Irene; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kanninen, Katja M.
2023
The Interaction between Circulating Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA and Inflammatory Cytokines in Predicting Human Mental Health Issue Risk in Adolescents: An Explorative Study
Alatalo, Arto; De Sousa Maciel, Izaque; Kuch‡rikov‡, Nina; Chew, Sweelin; Van Kamp, Irene; Foraster, Maria; Julvez, Jordi; Kanninen, Katja M.
2023
The effect of environment on depressive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood: an exposome-wide association study and twin modeling
Wang, Zhiyang; Zellers, Stephanie; Whipp, Alyce M.; Heinonen-Guzejev, Marja; Foraster, Maria; Jœlvez, Jordi; Van Kamp, Irene; Kaprio, Jaakko
2023
The effects of exposure to road traffic noise at school on central auditory pathway functional connectivity
Mart’nez-Vilavella, Gerard; Pujol, Jesus; Blanco-Hinojo, Laura; Deus, Joan; Rivas, Ioar; Persavento, Cecilia; Sunyer, Jordi; Foraster, Maria
2024
Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A scoping review
Jansen, S. N., Kamphorst, B. A., Mulder, B. C., van Kamp, I., Boekhold, S., van den Hazel, P., & Verweij, M. F.
2024
How well do NDVI and OpenStreetMap data capture people's visual perceptions of greenspace?
Teeuwen, Roos; Milias, Vasileios; Bozzon, Alessandro; Psyllidis, Achilleas
2024
Proteomic insights into mental health status: plasma markers in young adults
Afonin AM, Piironen AK, de Sousa Maciel I, Ivanova M, Alatalo A, Whipp AM, Pulkkinen L, Rose RJ, van Kamp I, Kaprio J, Kanninen KM.

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