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Whether ionizing radiation is a risk factor for schizophrenia spectrum disorders?
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2005
Loganovsky Konstantin N, Volovik Sergij V, Manton Kenneth G, Bazyka Dimitry A, Flor-Henry Pierre
Abstract excerpt
The neural diathesis-stressor hypothesis of schizophrenia, where neurobiological genetic predisposition to schizophrenia can be provoked by environmental stressors is considered as a model of the effects of exposure to ionizing radiation. Analysis of information from electronic databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Current Contents, Elsevier BIOBASE) and hand-made search was carried out. There are comparable...
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