Adult psychosis, common childhood infections and neurological soft signs in a national birth cohort
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Adult psychosis, common childhood infections and neurological soft signs in a national birth cohort.
BACKGROUND Neurological soft signs preceding adult-onset schizophrenia suggest a neurodevelopmental origin and could reflect physical illness in childhood. AIMS To investigate possible associations of adult-onset psychosis with neurological soft signs and common infectious illnesses in childhood. METHOD Using data from the UK National Child Development Study, a longitudinal general populati...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.181.5.387