Article
On the nature and mechanisms of obstetric influences in schizophrenia: a review and synthesis of epidemiologic studies
1997-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Obstetric complications are robust correlates of schizophrenia, but it remains controversial whether more than one neurally-disruptive mechanism is involved and whether such influences covary with, depend on, or are independent of the disorder's genetic basis. Labor and delivery complications (LDCs), particularly perinatal hypoxia, are the most consistently-replicated obstetric correlates of schizophrenia and appe...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 114fb3ab-0050-5711-a943-ba5521ac4fe5
- DOI
- 10.1080/09540269775259
