Seasonality of Mania: a Reappraisal Journal Articles

abstract

• Some recently published data on the seasonal incidence of mania are re-examined. The reanalysis confirms a strong seasonal trend in females, but also demonstrates a similar trend in males; the latter result is at variance with an earlier finding which showed no seasonal pattern in males. A simple harmonic curve would describe the data extremely well in both sexes, and the parameters of these curves (the amplitude of variation and the time of maximum incidence) are very close for males and females.

authors

• Walter, Stephen

status

• published 

publication date

• October 1977

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• England (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Mental Disorders (MeSH)
• Psychiatry (Science Metrix)
• Seasons (MeSH)
• Sex Factors (MeSH)
• Statistics as Topic (MeSH)
• Wales (MeSH)

published in

• The British journal of psychiatry. Supplement  Journal

keywords

• England
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Mental Disorders
• Seasons
• Sex Factors
• Statistics as Topic
• Wales

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1192/bjp.131.4.345

PubMed ID

• 922263

start page

• 345

end page

• 350

volume

• 131

issue

• 4