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PRE‐ AND PERINATAL COMPLICATIONS AND “CHILDHOOD SCHIZOPHRENIA”: A COMPARISON OF FIVE CONTROLLED STUDIES *
Author(s) -
Pollack Max,
Woerner Margaret G.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1966.tb02249.x
Subject(s) - psychosis , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , incidence (geometry) , pregnancy , psychiatry , low birth weight , birth weight , childhood schizophrenia , pediatrics , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , physics , biology , optics , genetics
A review of five investigations is presented, dealing with the incidence of pre- and perinatal complications among samples of childhood schizophrenics, as compared to normal control samples. All of the studies indicate a significant association between complications of pregnancy and childhood psychosis, but they fail to reveal a relationship between low birth weight, by itself, and the development of psychosis in childhood. Some of the studies indicate that a history of previous reproductive loss, severe postnatal illness, and birth complications may also be significant variables. Problems of sampling and methodology, as well as implications of these findings, are briefly discussed.