Psychiatry Research
Volume 137, Issue 1 , Pages 21-27 , 15 November 2005

Impact of case fatality on the seasonality of suicidal behaviour

  • Daniel Joseph Rock

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Graylands Hospital, Locked Bag No. 1, Claremont, 6910, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
    • School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Locked Bag No. 1, Claremont, 6910, Western Australia, Australia. Tel.: +61 8 9347 6405; fax: +61 8 9384 5128.
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  • David Mace Greenberg

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    • ,
  • Joachim Franz Hallmayer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Received 19 January 2004 ,Revised 17 January 2005 ,Accepted 3 August 2005.

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PII: S0165-1781(05)00233-7

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.08.002

Psychiatry Research
Volume 137, Issue 1 , Pages 21-27 , 15 November 2005

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