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People have a preference for, and feel better in, beautiful natural environments. However, there are no epidemiological studies on the association between neighborhood beauty and neuroimaging measures. We aimed to determine association between neighborhood beauty and regional brain volume. Participants were 476 community-dwelling older adults from...
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... brain volume data were regressed on intracranial volume and residuals were derived. We obtained the regional brain volume by calculating the sum of the residual and mean volume of each region (Supplementary Table S1). ...Context 3
... characteristics are shown in Table 1. Of the participants, 48% were men, 18% were ≥80 years old, 37% had <9 years of education, 40% had an annual household income of <2 million yen, and 81% were married. ...Context 4
... Materials: The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https: //www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/ijerph20010679/s1, Table S1: Summary of brain region volumes among Japanese older adults (n = 476); Table S2: Associations between subjective neighborhood beauty and regional brain volume according to residential area among Japanese older adults (n = 476). Figure S1: Plant diversity in the study area (Tokamachi City). ...