Increased corneal temperature in drug-free male schizophrenia patients

Roni Shiloh; Shirley Portuguese; Liron Bodinger; Nachum Katz; Maianit Sigler; Haggai Hermesh; Hanan Munitz; Abraham Weizman

doi:10.1016/S0924-977X(02)00080-9

Increased corneal temperature in drug-free male schizophrenia patients

Roni Shiloh, Shirley Portuguese, Liron Bodinger, Nachum Katz, Maianit Sigler, Haggai Hermesh, Hanan Munitz, Abraham Weizman^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Clinical Departments

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

23 Scopus citations

Abstract

Schizophrenia patients may exhibit altered body temperature. We hypothesized that drug-free patients may have a higher corneal temperature than normal subjects. The corneal temperature of seven remitted drug-free schizophrenia outpatients and seven healthy volunteers was evaluated with a flir thermal imaging camera. A significantly higher corneal temperature was observed in the patient group (34.60±1.89 vs. 33.05±0.58°C; P=0.005) and it correlated with their BPRS score (r=0.82; P=0.024). The relevance of these preliminary findings merit further investigation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-52
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Neuropsychopharmacology
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0924-977X(02)00080-9
State	Published - Jan 2003

Keywords

Corneal temperature
Schizophrenia
Thermoregulation

Access to Document

10.1016/S0924-977X(02)00080-9

Cite this

@article{ab7c0108443d4ab2bec4407de8a573b5,

title = "Increased corneal temperature in drug-free male schizophrenia patients",

abstract = "Schizophrenia patients may exhibit altered body temperature. We hypothesized that drug-free patients may have a higher corneal temperature than normal subjects. The corneal temperature of seven remitted drug-free schizophrenia outpatients and seven healthy volunteers was evaluated with a flir thermal imaging camera. A significantly higher corneal temperature was observed in the patient group (34.60±1.89 vs. 33.05±0.58°C; P=0.005) and it correlated with their BPRS score (r=0.82; P=0.024). The relevance of these preliminary findings merit further investigation.",

keywords = "Corneal temperature, Schizophrenia, Thermoregulation",

author = "Roni Shiloh and Shirley Portuguese and Liron Bodinger and Nachum Katz and Maianit Sigler and Haggai Hermesh and Hanan Munitz and Abraham Weizman",

year = "2003",

month = jan,

doi = "10.1016/S0924-977X(02)00080-9",

language = "אנגלית",

volume = "13",

pages = "49--52",

journal = "European Neuropsychopharmacology",

issn = "0924-977X",

publisher = "Elsevier",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Increased corneal temperature in drug-free male schizophrenia patients

AU - Shiloh, Roni

AU - Portuguese, Shirley

AU - Bodinger, Liron

AU - Katz, Nachum

AU - Sigler, Maianit

AU - Hermesh, Haggai

AU - Munitz, Hanan

AU - Weizman, Abraham

PY - 2003/1

Y1 - 2003/1

N2 - Schizophrenia patients may exhibit altered body temperature. We hypothesized that drug-free patients may have a higher corneal temperature than normal subjects. The corneal temperature of seven remitted drug-free schizophrenia outpatients and seven healthy volunteers was evaluated with a flir thermal imaging camera. A significantly higher corneal temperature was observed in the patient group (34.60±1.89 vs. 33.05±0.58°C; P=0.005) and it correlated with their BPRS score (r=0.82; P=0.024). The relevance of these preliminary findings merit further investigation.

AB - Schizophrenia patients may exhibit altered body temperature. We hypothesized that drug-free patients may have a higher corneal temperature than normal subjects. The corneal temperature of seven remitted drug-free schizophrenia outpatients and seven healthy volunteers was evaluated with a flir thermal imaging camera. A significantly higher corneal temperature was observed in the patient group (34.60±1.89 vs. 33.05±0.58°C; P=0.005) and it correlated with their BPRS score (r=0.82; P=0.024). The relevance of these preliminary findings merit further investigation.

KW - Corneal temperature

KW - Schizophrenia

KW - Thermoregulation

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037212383&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/S0924-977X(02)00080-9

DO - 10.1016/S0924-977X(02)00080-9

M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontojournal.article???

AN - SCOPUS:0037212383

SN - 0924-977X

VL - 13

SP - 49

EP - 52

JO - European Neuropsychopharmacology

JF - European Neuropsychopharmacology

IS - 1

ER -

Increased corneal temperature in drug-free male schizophrenia patients

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this