title: Age incidence and schizophrenia: Part I. The season of birth controversy.
abstract: Distortions in incidence data are probably responsible for the apparent excess of schizophrenia among people born in winter. The widely held belief that the excess reflects a winter component in the etiology of schizophrenia is based on errors in the design and interpretation of seasonal studies.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 78712.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012621:Seasons