Large-scale societal dynamics are reflected in human mood and brain

Alexander V. Lebedev; Christoph Abé; Kasim Acar; Gustavo Deco; Morten L. Kringelbach; Martin Ingvar; Predrag Petrovic

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-08569-3

Large-scale societal dynamics are reflected in human mood and brain

Alexander V. Lebedev^*, Christoph Abé, Kasim Acar, Gustavo Deco, Morten L. Kringelbach, Martin Ingvar, Predrag Petrovic

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Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain

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The stock market is a bellwether of socio-economic changes that may directly affect individual well-being. Using large-scale UK-biobank data generated over 14 years, we applied specification curve analysis to rigorously identify significant associations between the local stock market index (FTSE100) and 479,791 UK residents’ mood, as well as their alcohol intake and blood pressure adjusting the results for a large number of potential confounders, including age, sex, linear and non-linear effects of time, research site, other stock market indexes. Furthermore, we found similar associations between FTSE100 and volumetric measures of affective brain regions in a subsample (n = 39,755; measurements performed over 5.5 years), which were particularly strong around phase transitions characterized by maximum volatility in the market. The main findings did not depend on applied effect-size estimation criteria (linear methods or mutual information criterion) and were replicated in two independent US-based studies (Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative; n = 424; performed over 2.5 years and MyConnectome; n = 1; 81 measurements over 1.5 years). Our results suggest that phase transitions in the society, indexed by stock market, exhibit close relationships with human mood, health and the affective brain from an individual to population level.

Original language	English
Article number	4646
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	12
ISSN	2045-2322
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08569-3
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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