Conception season and cerebral asymmetries among American baseball players: Implications for the seasonal birth effect in schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-293

  Marzullo, Giovanni ^a   Fraser, Frank Clarke ^b  

^a Per Aspera Research Foundation   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annual photoperiod; Baseball players; Hemispheric laterality; Left handedness; Month of birth; Neural tube defects; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BIRTH; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONCEPTION; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICS;

BASEBALL; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349167129     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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