Khalil, M.H. & Steemers, K. (2026). The Neurobiophilia Index. [Forthcoming]
Khalil, M.H., Gregorians, L., Steemers, K., Spiers, H. (2026). Associations between objectively quantified spatial complexity with fMRI hippocampal activity and subjective judgements. [Forthcoming]
Khalil, M.H. (2026). The Architectural Spatial Complexity Index (A-SCI): A Layout Assessment Tool for Neurogenesis-Predictive Cognitive Enrichment. [Forthcoming]
Khalil, M.H. & Steemers, K. (2026). Apartment Living is Associated with Depressive Psychomotor Symptoms. [Forthcoming]
Khalil, M.H. & Steemers, K. (2026). Neurobiophilia. Brain Sciences.
Khalil, M. H., & Steemers, K. (2025). Brain Booster Buildings: Modelling Stair Use as a Daily Booster of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor. Buildings, 15(20), 3730.
Khalil, M. H. (2025). Walking and Hippocampal Formation Volume Changes: A Systematic Review. Brain Sciences, 15(1), 52.
Khalil, M. H. (2025). The Impact of Walking on the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) as a Biomarker of Neurosustainability: A Systematic Review. Brain Sciences, 15(3), 254.
Khalil, M. H. (2025). Green Environments for Sustainable Brains: Parameters Shaping Adaptive Neuroplasticity and Lifespan Neurosustainability—A Systematic Review and Future Directions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(5), 690.
Khalil, M. H. (2025). Borderline in a linear city: Urban living brings borderline personality disorder to crisis through neuroplasticity—an urgent call to action. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1524531.
Khalil, M. H. (2024). Environmental affordance for physical activity, neurosustainability, and brain health: quantifying the built environment’s ability to sustain BDNF release by reaching metabolic equivalents (METs). Brain Sciences, 14(11), 1133.
Khalil, M. H. (2024). The BDNF-interactive model for sustainable hippocampal neurogenesis in humans: synergistic effects of environmentally-mediated physical activity, cognitive stimulation, and mindfulness. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(23), 12924.
Khalil, M. H., & Steemers, K. (2024). Housing environmental enrichment, lifestyles, and public health indicators of neurogenesis in humans: A pilot study. IJERPH, 21(12), 1553.
Khalil, M. H. (2024). Environmental enrichment: a systematic review on the effect of a changing spatial complexity on hippocampal neurogenesis and plasticity in rodents, with considerations for translation to urban and built environments for humans. Front. in Neursc., 18, 1368411.
Khalil, M. H. (2024). Neurosustainability. Front. Human Neuosc. 1436179.
Khalil, M. H., Kawi, A. A., & Zaky, H. (2024). Homes in flux: Evaluating personal and social dynamics amid urban variability and mass-produced prototype housing. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 96, 102321.
Khalil, M. H. (2024). Four-walled or fourfold? Assessing if the gated community is an antidote to cities or a macrocosm of deprived houses. Cities & Health, 1-9.
Othman, A. A. E., & Khalil, M. H. M. (2020). A lean talent management framework for maximizing creativity in architectural design firms. International Journal of Construction Management, 20(5), 520-533.
Othman, A. A. E., & Khalil, M. H. M. (2018). Lean talent management: a novel approach for increasing creativity in architectural design firms. Engineering, Const. and Arch. Mgmt., 25(10), 1355-1375.