Chronomics of autism and suicide.
We examine whether autism may be influenced by non-photic environmental factors, among others, in a California database consisting of the number of cases added quarterly to the system between 1993 and 2004. Instead of a precise calendar (1.0)-year-long spectral component, we detect unseen primarily helio- and geomagnetic signatures, including a newly discovered near-transyear of 1.09-year length. In this case, it overrides any undetected seasonal effects, the topic of much previous unrewarding research, also analyzed herein without overcoming the limitation by stacking. Since we could not get additional data on autism, data on suicides, the final "detachment" and failure to bond, were also analyzed, again revealing a spectrum of non-photic signatures. What we do not see and do not anticipate can exist and can override the seasons, as resolved time-microscopically by chronomics, the study of chronomes (time structures). Just as spatial microscopy and electron microscopy resolved infectious agents, so does microscopy in time resolve the signature of environmental agents in human behavior in health and disease.
Halberg
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Halberg Chronobiology Center, University of Minnesota, MMC 8609, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. halbe001@umn.edu
Cornélissen
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Panksepp
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Otsuka
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Johnson
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D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D002909:Chronobiology Phenomena; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D010507:Periodicity; D012621:Seasons; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*