@article{ref1,
title="Season of birth and schizophrenia: southern hemisphere data",
journal="Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry",
year="1996",
author="Berk, M. and Terre-Blanche, M. J. and Maude, C. and Lucas, M. D. and Mendelsohn, M. and O'Neill-Kerr, A. J.",
volume="30",
number="2",
pages="220-222",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The association between winter birth and increased incidence of schizophrenia is well documented in the northern hemisphere. The present study examined season of birth and schizophrenia in a southern hemisphere population from a mild temperate climate. METHOD: The seasonal incidence of birth in schizophrenic patients was compared, using Chi-squared tests, to normative population birth rates. RESULTS: A statistically significant seasonal pattern, with a peak in late spring and early summer, was obtained. CONCLUSION: This supports northern hemisphere findings regarding calendar month, but not season, of excess schizophrenic births. This has implications for viral and other aetiological hypotheses dependent on meteorological factors.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-8674",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}