Birth Seasonality in Developmentally Disabled Children
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 64 (3_suppl) , 1213-1214
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.64.3c.1213
Abstract
26 children with diagnoses of autism and 22 children with diagnoses of childhood schizophrenia or a variant thereof were compared on the variable of winter birth. Analyses showed that autistic children had a higher proportion of winter births than schizophrenic children. These findings are related to other research linking winter birth to negative-syndrome adult schizophrenia.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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