Sex difference in response to stress by lunar month: A pilot study of four years' crisis-call frequency

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Kollerstrom, Nicholas ^a   Steffert, Beverly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOON; PILOT STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAFF; SUN; TELEPHONE; TIME;

ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA; ASTRONOMY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EMPLOYMENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOTLINES; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOON; PILOT PROJECTS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 2642552325     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-3-20     Document Type: Article

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