Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

BACKGROUND: Previous research has shown that females who use hormonal contraception are at increased risk of developing depression, and that the risk is highest among adolescents. While this finding could reflect age-specific effects of exo…

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether variation at two common polymorphisms, T102C and -1438AG, of the serotonin 2A gene (5HT2A) are involved in the puerperal triggering mechanism of bipolar affective puerperal psychosis. METHOD: A total of 242 pa…

In a Danish cohort of schizophrenics consisting of 6,168 patients followed during 1957-1980, the incidence of certain types of cancer has been shown to be significantly decreased (5). From this cohort 30 males with lung cancer, 21 males wit…