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Mental well-being A New York state of mind 心理幸福感 都市心理 Urban brains behave differently from rural ones 都市人和乡村人大脑的不同活动 HELL is a city much like London, opined Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819. 1819年，波比?雪莱曾说道： 伦敦就像地狱。 Modern academics agree. 现在，现代学者们同意他的观点。 Last year Dutch researchers showed that city dwellers have a 21% higher risk of developinganxiety disorders than do their calmer rural countrymen, and a 39% higher risk ofdeveloping mood disorders. 去年，荷兰研究员们表示伦敦城市居民患焦虑性障碍症的风险比伦敦的宁静乡村里的居民的风险要高21%，而患上心境障碍的风险要比乡村居民的风险高31%。 But exactly how the inner workings of the urban and rural minds cause this difference hasremained obscureuntil now. 但是，直到现在，对于城市居民和乡村居民各自的大脑活动是怎么引起患病的不同风险，人们还不太清楚。 A study just published in Nature by Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg of the University of Heidelbergand his colleagues has used a scanning technique called functional magnetic-resonanceimaging to examine the brains of city dwellers and country bumpkins when they areunder stress. | 
