[HTML][HTML] The BDNF-interactive model for sustainable hippocampal neurogenesis in humans: synergistic effects of environmentally-mediated physical activity, cognitive …

MH Khalil - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper bridges critical gaps through proposing a novel, environmentally mediated brain-
derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-interactive model that promises to sustain adult …

[HTML][HTML] Walking and Hippocampal Formation Volume Changes: A Systematic Review

MH Khalil - Brain Sciences, 2025 - mdpi.com
Background/Objectives: Sustaining the human brain's hippocampus from atrophy throughout
ageing is critical. Exercise is proven to be effective in promoting adaptive hippocampal …

[HTML][HTML] Housing environmental enrichment, lifestyles, and public health indicators of neurogenesis in humans: A pilot study

MH Khalil, K Steemers - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: In response to the rising mental health concerns and cognitive decline
associated with the human brain's neurogenesis, which continues until the tenth decade of …

Borderline in a linear city: Urban living brings borderline personality disorder to crisis through neuroplasticity—an urgent call to action

MH Khalil - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Since its identification in the late 1930s by the American psychiatrist and psychoanalysis
Adolph Stem (1), there has been a steeper increase in borderline personality disorder …

[PDF][PDF] Borderline in a linear city: Urban living is bringing borderline personality disorder into a crisis via neuroplasticity—an urgent call to action

M Khalil - 2024 - repository.cam.ac.uk
The reason why borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most medically
untreatable disorders is argued and evidenced in this article to be the trigger to BPD in …

Architecturally Mediated Allostasis and Neurosustainability: A Proposed Theoretical Framework for the Impact of the Built Environment on Neurocognitive Health

C Valentine, H Mitcheltree, IAK Sjövall, MH Khalil - Brain Sciences, 2025 - mdpi.com
The global rise in mental health-related disorders represents a significant health and
wellbeing challenge, imposing a substantial social and economic burden on individuals …