Psychiatric illness and season of birth

R. A. Woodruff; S. B. Guze; P. J. Clayton

doi:10.1176/ajp.131.8.925

Psychiatric illness and season of birth

R. A. Woodruff, S. B. Guze, P. J. Clayton

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The authors collected data from a research clinic to test the hypothesis that patients with schizophrenia and manic depressive illness are born early in the year more frequently than would be expected by chance. No evidence of seasonal variation of birth for patients with any specific diagnosis was found.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	925-926
Number of pages	2
Journal	American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	131
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.8.925
State	Published - 1974
Externally published	Yes

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