Adult psychosis, common childhood infections and neurological soft signs in a national birth cohort

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 181, Issue NOV., 2002, Pages 387-392

  Leask, Stuart J ^a   Done, D John ^a   Crow, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0036850322     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.181.5.387     Document Type: Article

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