European Neuropsychopharmacology
Volume 19, Issue 9 , Pages 654-658 , September 2009

Association between corneal temperature and mental status of treatment-resistant schizophrenia inpatients

  • Roni Shiloh

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Geha Mental Health Center, PO Box 102, Petach-Tikva 49100, Israel. Tel.: +972 3 9258284; fax: +972 3 9258421.
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  • Lior Schapir

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • ,
  • Danit Bar-Ziv

      Affiliations

    • Tel-Aviv Community Mental Health Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • ,
  • Rafael Stryjer

      Affiliations

    • Beer-Yaakov Mental Health Center, Beer-Yaakov, Israel
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  • Shai Konas

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Rachel Louis

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Haggai Hermesh

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Hanan Munitz

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Abraham Weizman

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Avi Valevski

      Affiliations

    • Geha Mental Health Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Received 9 November 2008 ,Revised 12 April 2009 ,Accepted 28 April 2009.

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PII: S0924-977X(09)00119-9

doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2009.04.010

European Neuropsychopharmacology
Volume 19, Issue 9 , Pages 654-658 , September 2009