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Seasonal distribution of psychiatric births in England.
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- An epidemiological study of season of birth, mental health, and neuroimaging in the UK Biobank.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Season of birth and the risk of dementia in the population-based Rotterdam Study.European journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Rhythms, Reward, and Blues: Consequences of Circadian Photoperiod on Affective and Reward Circuit Function.Neuroscience · 2021Review
- Birth month and infant gross motor development: Results from the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS).PloS one · 2021Article
- Photoperiodic effects on monoamine signaling and gene expression throughout development in the serotonin and dopamine systems.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Short-active photoperiod gestation induces psychiatry-relevant behavior in healthy mice but a resiliency to such effects are seen in mice with reduced dopamine transporter expression.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Polygenic risk for schizophrenia and season of birth within the UK Biobank cohort.Psychological medicine · 2019Article
- Spring peaks and autumn troughs identified in peripheral inflammatory markers during the peripartum period.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Heart rate variability related to season of birth: A replication study.Psychophysiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
There is general consensus that season of birth influences the risk of developing psychiatric conditions later in life. We aimed to investigate whether the risk of schizophrenia (SC), bipolar affective disorder (BAD) and recurrent depressive disorder (RDD) is influenced by month of birth in England to a similar extent as other countries using the largest cohort of English patients collected to date (n = 57,971). When cases were compared to the general English population (n = 29,183,034) all diseases showed a seasonal distribution of births (SC p = 2.48E-05; BAD p = 0.019; RDD p = 0.015). This data has implications for future strategies of disease prevention.
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