Schizophrenia After Prenatal Exposure to the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 983-988

  Susser, Ezra S ^a   Lin, Shang P ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD INTAKE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUNGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WINTER;

FEMALE; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONS; STARVATION; WAR;

EID: 0026496482     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820120071010     Document Type: Article

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