SEASON OF BIRTH IN INFANTILE-AUTISM AND OTHER TYPES OF CHILDHOOD PSYCHOSES

Authors
MOURIDSEN SE PSYCH C NIELSEN S RICH B ISAGER T
Citation
Se. Mouridsen et al., SEASON OF BIRTH IN INFANTILE-AUTISM AND OTHER TYPES OF CHILDHOOD PSYCHOSES, Child psychiatry and human development, 25(1), 1994, pp. 31-43
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Psychology, Developmental",Psychiatry,"Behavioral Sciences
Journal title
Child psychiatry and human development → ACNP
ISSN journal
0009398X
Volume
25
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
31 - 43
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-398X(1994)25:1<31:SOBIIA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Season of birth in 328 children with infantile autism and other types of childhood psychoses born between 1945 and 1980 was compared with th at of a control population born in the same period. For some parts of the period (the years 1951-56, 1963-68 and 1975-80 combined) an excess of March born boys with infantile autism was found. For boys with aut istic-like disorders, born in the same period a maximum occurred in No vember, while no seasonality was observed for a borderline sample.