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Season of birth : a study of schizophrenia and other mental disorders /
Season of Birth: A Study of Schizophrenia and Other Mental Disorders discusses the correlation between season of birth and mental disorders. The book provides reviews of studies relevant to understanding how the season of birth relates to various mental disorders. The first five chapters cover pregn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
North-Holland Pub. Co. : American Elsevier,
1975.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Season of Birth; Copyright Page; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. VITAL STATISTICS; General survey and geographical variations; Socio-economic factors; Illegitimacy; Multiple births; Birth order; Stillbirths; Infant mortality; Sex ratio; Chapter 2. OBSTETRICS; Abortions; Uterine bleedings; Hyperemesis; Toxaemia of pregnancy; Asphyxia; Length of gestation; Weight and length at birth; Virus infections during pregnancy; Cytomegalovirus; Herpes simplex virus; Influenza; Other common viruses; Slow or latent viruses; Virus antibodies in adult mental patients.
- Chapter 3. CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMIntroduction; The British Isles; The rest of Europe; The rest of the world; Concluding remarks; Dietary hypotheses; Chapter 4. CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES; Down's syndrome; Time-space clustering and epidemic recurrence; Sex chromosome aneuploidies; Trisomy 18; Chapter 5. NEONATAL DISORDERS WHICH MIGHT CAUSE BRAIN DAMAGE; Haemorrhagic disease of the newborn; Infectious diseases; Neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia; Fever of the newborn; Other neonatal or infantile disorders; Chapter 6. INTELLIGENCE; Discussion; Personality measures.
- Mental deficiencyConcluding remarks ; Chapter 7. MENTAL DISORDERS; Schizophrenia; Manic-depressive psychosis; Reactive depression; Neuroses; Personality disorders; Other diagnoses; Concluding remarks; Chapter 8. THE PRESENT SWEDISH SAMPLES; Sources of data; The first sample; Data processing; The second sample; Sampling bias; Chapter 9. THE CONTROL DATA; Swedish vital statistics; Month of birth in the present Swedish population; Calculation of expected frequencies; Chapter 10. RESULTS; The first sample; The second sample; Schizophrenia; Regional subdivisions; Duration of hospitalisation.
- Intervals between admissionsParanoia; Psychoses aliae s. non definitae; Personality disorders; Manic-depressive psychosis and involutional melancholia; Reactive depression; Neuroses; Other diagnoses; Chapter 11. THE SOUTH AFRICAN SAMPLE; Collection of data; Age and sex distribution; Contral data; Results; Sex differences; Discussion; Summary; Chapter 12. DISCUSSION OF RESULTS; Technical errors; Other trivial explanations; Constitutional damage; Haemorrhagic disease of the newborn; Season of birth in other diagnostic groups; Summary.