Seasonal variation in some mental health statistics: Suicides, homicides, psychiatric admissions, and institutional placement of the retarded

Cerbus, George

doi:10.1002/1097-4679(197001)26:1<61::aid-jclp2270260114>3.0.co;2-j

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“…Although numerous papers have been published o ve r th e yea rs th a t support the existence of seasonal differences in psychiatri c disorde rs (24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39), 41 many of these early papers do not seem readily applicable to support cu r rent notions of the entity of SAD . Although, Rosentha l et al briefly allude to t he numerous discrepancies in these early studies (40), Christensen et al in th e "Myths of Mid-Winter Depression," present a detailed literature r e view of t he conflicting nature of the empirical data that relates to se aso na l peaks of psychiatric disorders (41).…”

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: SAD or Fad?

Pichot¹,

Jensen²

1989

JJP

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Section: Literat Ure Sup Port For Sadmentioning

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: SAD or Fad?

Pichot¹,

Jensen²

1989

JJP

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“…Specified Variables. There have been recurring, although largely unsupported, claims that suicide is affected by weather (Cerbus, 1970;Sanborn, Casey, & Niswander, 1970;Zung & Green, 1974). Accordingly, we included the monthly mean noon temperature as a specified control variable.…”

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Economic Stress and Suicide: Multilevel Analyses

Dooley,

Catalano,

Rook

et al. 1989

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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Of the research on health and economic stress, the approach that has produced the strongest findings has been the aggregate time‐series analysis of unemployment and suicide rates. A review of the literature indicates that this aggregate work has been disputed on both methodological and interpretive grounds. To address these issues, two studies of the relationship between economic stress and suicide were conducted on the same population. The first, reported in this paper (Part 1), replicated the aggregate time‐series work with improvements in method, using monthly data for 1975–1982 for Los Angeles. A second study (reported in Part 2) combined aggregate economic indicators with individual‐level measures of stressful events, symptoms, and suicidal ideation.

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“…The aborigines of Australia have their erotic festivities in September (when it is spring in the southern hemisphere). Other symptoms of this latent "heat" period in man could be the pronounced increase in sexual offences, extramarital conceptions, suicides, and urgent admittances in psychiatric institutions during spring (and autumn) and a clear decrease during summer and winter (Willmans 1920, Huntington 1938, Cerbus 1970. Thus man seems to be in a more labile condition psychologically in spring and autumn.…”

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Month of birth and gametopathy

Jongbloet

1971

Clinical Genetics

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Monthly variations in the incidence of births of 441 patients with Down's syndrome, 317 patients with Klinefelter's syndrome, and 126 patients with Turner's syndrome were studied. These three chromosomal aberrations showed almost identical seasonal variation with two maxima, a greater maximum in the period February to May and a smaller one in September. These fluctuations synchronous with those of the “normal” birth curve, but have a greater amplitude. To explain the variations, the following hypothesis is proposed: Seasonal fluctuations in the “normal” conception curve are caused by two basic oestric patterns, of which a phylogenetically younger (polyoestrus) is superimposed upon the phylogenetically older one (mono‐ or dioestrus). The latter is influenced by climatologic factors. The seasonal fluctuations in the “normal” conception curve can be explained by alternating periods of normal, i.e. ovulatory, and of disturbed, i.e. anovulatory, cycles. The increase of “pathological conceptions” during spring and autumn and the crease during winter and summer are caused by interference of the two basic oestric patterns. Such interference might retard the preovulatory or intrafollicular ripening of the egg cell, resulting in overripeness ovopathy. In addition, spermatopathy, too, could be influenced by climatalogic factors. Birth curves of parents of patients with Down's syndrome may suggest a constitutional factor, predisposing to “pathologic conceptions”.

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Seasonal variation in some mental health statistics: Suicides, homicides, psychiatric admissions, and institutional placement of the retarded

Cited by 34 publications

References 4 publications

Seasonal Affective Disorder: SAD or Fad?

Seasonal Affective Disorder: SAD or Fad?

Economic Stress and Suicide: Multilevel Analyses

Month of birth and gametopathy

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