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Place affects mood. Walk into a park on a sunny day, and your soul may feel lighter. Spend just a couple of minutes battling a crowd on a slushy sidewalk, and a happy day can turn sour. But scientists have only recently begun to tease out how place and mental health are intertwined — how more trees might help prevent or alleviate depression, for instance. There’s relatively little solid data available on how the physical environment might affect people’s mental health, and particularly not how it might nurture or prevent addictions from forming.

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