Gender-specific decline and seasonality of births in operationally defined schizophrenics in Italy

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 73-81

  Balestrieri, Matteo ^a,b,c   Rucci, Paola ^b   Nicolaou, Stylianos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnostic operational criteria; Incidence; Schizophrenia; Season of birth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030724079     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(97)00071-6     Document Type: Article

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