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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-25
pubmed:abstractText
Schizophrenia is said to be associated with a modest excess of winter births. We examined relations of season of birth (SOB) to the skin conductance response (SCR) and finger pulse amplitude response (FPAR) components of the orienting response (OR) in 83 schizophrenic patients, 59 depressed patients, and 81 normal controls. SCR-OR nonresponding was more prevalent among depressed patients regardless of SOB, whereas only winter-born schizophrenics showed significantly more frequent electrodermal nonresponding than controls. However, this latter relation was not confirmed with log linear analysis. No other relations of SOB to SCR-OR or FPAR-OR nonresponding were significant. Our data do not support the view that nonresponding in the SCR or FPAR components of the OR is associated with winter birth either in schizophrenia or depression.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0006-3223
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
34-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
The relationship of the skin conductance and finger pulse amplitude components of the orienting response to season of birth in schizophrenia and depression.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.