Chronomics of suicides and the solar wind

Cornélissen, Germaine; Halberg, F.

doi:10.1192/bjp.189.6.567a

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“…The highest one in the range Tper=2 -4 years is that with the center at ~ 2.2 years. Such cyclicity was reported earlier in suicides in England and Wales based on data 1968 -2002 [19].…”

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confidence: 72%

The Relationship between Suicide Incidents in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and Heliophysical Parameters: Empirical Results

Kancirova¹

2014

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Suicide has been attributed to social and economic factors but changes in solar radiation and geomagnetic activities may contribute to the frequency and the seasonal pattern of suicides. We studied the relationship between suicide episodes in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and parameters of solar, heliospheric and geomagnetic activity during the period of 1982 to 2011. Along with checking the linear correlation between the suicide event number and the physical parameters of outer space on yearly basis, the contribution of the harmonic component with periodicity near that of the heliophysical chracteristics was examined and optimum frequency of such contribution was estimated used detrended time series. The results show a weak effect of solar and geomagnertic activity variations on the suicide incidents in the given data set. Higher statistics and better temporal resolution of the data is needed to obtain more conclusive results.

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“…The highest one in the range Tper=2 -4 years is that with the center at ~ 2.2 years. Such cyclicity was reported earlier in suicides in England and Wales based on data 1968 -2002 [19].…”

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confidence: 72%

The Relationship between Suicide Incidents in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and Heliophysical Parameters: Empirical Results

Kancirova¹

2014

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“…On the positive side, the recognition of cycles, including non-photic ones such as transyears, in time estimation that differ from the photic day and year opens new perspectives of how a mental function can be influenced by the solar wind’s cyclicities that may have entered the genome, as circadians clearly did (Touitou and Haus 1992; Halberg et al 2003b; Koukkari and Sothern 2006; Refinetti 2006). The importance of nonphotic cycles beyond those in the estimation of 1 minute is evident from those influencing sudden death (Halberg et al 2006), suicide (Gordon and Berk 2003; Berk et al 2006; Cornélissen and Halberg 2006; Shumilov et al 2008; Chernouss et al pers comm), terrorism (Cornélissen et al 2007; Grigoryev and Vladimirskii 2007; Halberg et al 2007; Wendt 2007), and psychophysiology more generally (Persinger 1987; Oraevskii et al 1998; Breus et al 2002; Palmer et al 2006). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many of these spectral components are of non-photic origin, coexisting and competing with, and sometimes replacing the calendar-year component. These cycles constitute pertinent control information and are also of interest in their own right, since some of them are associated with suicide (Cornélissen and Halberg 2006) and sudden cardiac death (Halberg et al 2006). …”

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Chronomics, human time estimation, and aging

Halberg

Sothern

Cornélissen³

et al. 2008

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Background: Circadian rhythm stage affects many outcomes, including those of mental aging. Methods: Estimations of 1 minute ∼5 times/day for a year, 25 years apart, by a healthy male biomedical scientist (RBS), are analyzed by the extended cosinor. Results: Cycles of a half-week, a week, ∼30 days, a half-year and a year, in self-assessed 1-minute estimation by RBS between 25 and 60 years of age in health, are mapped for the fi rst time, compared and opposite effects are found. For RBS at 60 vs at 25 years of age, it takes less time in the morning around 10:30 (P Ͻ 0.001), but not in the evening around 19:30 (P = 0.956), to estimate 1 minute. Discussion: During the intervening decades, the time of estimating 1 minute differed greatly, dependent on circadian stage, being a linear decrease in the morning and increase in the evening, the latter modulated by a ∼33.6-year cycle. Conclusion: Circadian and infradian rhythm mapping is essential for a scrutiny of effects of aging. A ∼30-day and a circannual component apparent at 25 years of age are not found later; cycles longer than a year are detected. Rhythm stages await tests as markers for timing therapy in disease.

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“…99) Hence, to check Wendt's findings, the spectral structure of international terrorist acts was examined with limited focus, namely to determine the extent to which the incidence of terrorism may be influenced not only (if at all) by socio-photo-thermoperiodisms with a 1.0-year τ , but also by nonphotic magnetoperiodisms usually characterized by wobbly transyears with an about 1.3-year or similar τ , which we had detected earlier in suicide. 100) Table 3 summarizes the results obtained on the original data by the fit of a 1.3-year cosine curve with a one-parameter approach, 101) since the more rigorous nonlinear approach did not resolve a transyear. Tabulated analyses on the data as a whole as well as on the shorter series, after omitting the limited information from the time before the gap, were nearly the same, suggesting that the break did not play a critical role.…”

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“…A near-transyear and a far-transyear are found with a calendar-yearly component and a prominent cis-year in the incidence of suicides in Minnesota with the amplitude of the transyear more prominent than that of the calendar year. 100) The absence of a calendar-yearly component also applies to our subsequent analyses of a larger database from the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT). It was also used to derive the monthly incidence of international terrorist acts between February 1968 and March 2007 (∼39 years).…”

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Cycles Tipping the Scale between Death and Survival (=“Life")

Halberg

Cornélissen

Sothern

et al. 2008

Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl.

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Systematic chronobiologically interpreted ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) monitoring (C-ABPM 7D/24H is now automatically possible; if continued around the clock over a week, this approach detects vascular variability disorders (VVDs) that include, among others, high BP itself and CHAT, short for circadian hyper-amplitude-tension. BP is never a constant "true" (resting) value and can be more reliably diagnosed by CABPM 7d/24h as MESOR-hypertension, MH. CHAT carries a risk of hard events greater than MH and can be treated, among other VVDs, which if they coexist constitute vascular variability syndromes (VVSs). A project on The BIOsphere and the COSmos, BIOCOS (corne001@umn.edu), provides, in exchange for the data, cost-free analyses and the opportunity of obtaining monitors at a cost reduction of 80%. Biospheric monitoring complements the records from purely physical tools for surveilling the variable sun, by validating in the biosphere the reality of intermittent, aeolian environmental spectral components that can be more consistent than their physical counterparts once they are coded in genes. C-ABPM 7D/24H indicates relevant associations of space weather with human health and ecology.Monitoring reveals, around and in living matter, a system of transdisciplinary cycles with common average periods, quantified with point-and-interval estimates of parameters. The cycles in space climate are critical in discussing global warming. The cycles' periods are described as congruent when their CIs (95% confidence intervals) overlie or overlap and the amplitudes' CIs' lower limits are positive. Some congruent cycles in organisms, counterparts of the environmental day and the seasons, relate to electromagnetic radiation in the visible domain; these are the usually environmentally synchronized socio-photo-thermoperiodisms (photics). The biosphere also resonates with or is pulled or driven by nonstationary, environmental nonphotic cycles (nonphotics) -particle emissions from the sun and the wider cosmos, cosmoheliogeomagnetics, ultraviolet flux, gravitation, acoustics and others. Nonphotics, a set of in part transdisciplinarily-novel spectral components, can be intermittent; when present, they coexist and compete with signatures of photic cycles, monitored, e.g., in BP and HR. Nonphotics of, e.g., about (∼) 1 week (circaseptans) and ∼17 months (transyears), characterize mood and performance, modulate and sometimes override society's (photic) schedules, even in dying suddenly either unintentionally or by one's own will or at the hand of others. Nonphotics persist, but are damped in physiology or in terrorism, when their environmental counterpart is not detected. Their elucidation provides information on how a set of cycles covering 18 orders of magnitude in the frequency domain of the biosphere bears on the question "What is life?": a resonance of the biosphere with periods of its environment constitutes life itself. §1. IntroductionMany cycles constitute life. Otsuka's contribution in this volume on clinical...

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The Relationship between Suicide Incidents in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and Heliophysical Parameters: Empirical Results

The Relationship between Suicide Incidents in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and Heliophysical Parameters: Empirical Results

Chronomics, human time estimation, and aging

Cycles Tipping the Scale between Death and Survival (=“Life")

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