Age Incidence and Schizophrenia: Part I. The Season of Birth Controversy
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- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Schizophrenia Bulletin
- Vol. 15 (1) , 59-73
- https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/15.1.59
Abstract
Distortions in incidence data are probably responsible for the apparent excess of schizophrenia among people born in winter. The widely held belief that the excess reflects a winter component in the etiology of schizophrenia is based on errors in the design and interpretation of seasonal studies.Keywords
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