Season of birth and schizophrenia: Southern hemisphere data

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 220-222

  Berk, Michael ^a   Terre Blanche, Martin John ^b   Maude, Catherine ^c   Lucas, Marilyn Doreen ^a   Mendelsohn, Michaela ^a   O'Neill Kerr, Alexander James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

EID: 0029934001     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679609076097     Document Type: Article

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