Season of birth in infantile autism and other types of childhood psychoses

S E Mouridsen; S Nielsen; B Rich; T Isager

doi:10.1007/BF02251098

Season of birth in infantile autism and other types of childhood psychoses

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 1994 Fall;25(1):31-43. doi: 10.1007/BF02251098.

Authors

S E Mouridsen¹, S Nielsen, B Rich, T Isager

Affiliation

¹ Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 7805434
DOI: 10.1007/BF02251098

Abstract

Season of birth in 328 children with infantile autism and other types of childhood psychoses born between 1945 and 1980 was compared with that 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 autistic-like disorders, born in the same period a maximum occurred in November, while no seasonality was observed for a borderline sample.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Autistic Disorder / epidemiology*
Autistic Disorder / etiology
Borderline Personality Disorder / epidemiology
Borderline Personality Disorder / etiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Denmark / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Psychotic Disorders / epidemiology*
Psychotic Disorders / etiology
Risk Factors
Seasons*