The Dutch Famine and schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 373-379

  Hoek, H W ^a   Brown, A S ^b   Susser, E ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPOTHESIS; NETHERLANDS; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAR; WINTER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STARVATION;

EID: 0031869189     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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