Age incidence and schizophrenia: Part I. The season of birth controversy.
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.
Lewis
M S
MS
Dept. of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 78712.
D000367:Age Factors; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012621:Seasons