RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Weather and the first episode of schizophrenia
JF Neurosciences Journal
JO Neurosciences (Riyadh)
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 43
OP 45
VO 7
IS 1
A1 Mohamed Z. Zawahri
YR 2002
UL http://nsj.org.sa/content/7/1/43.abstract
AB OBJECTIVE: To emphasize the effect of weather on the occurrence of the first episode of Schizophrenia.METHODS: The relationship between weather and the first episode of schizophrenia was investigated at Ibn Sina Psychiatric Hospital, Damascus, Syria, from 1997 to 1999.RESULTS: Schizophrenia in developing countries affects men at a higher rate than women. The highest rates are found in lower socioeconomic classes, and the first episode of the disease usually occurs in May or June, and after weather changes.CONCLUSION: High temperature (equal or exceeding body temperature) is considered one of the outside factors of schizophrenia, however, as yet the etiology of the disease is still unknown.