Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Objections to suicide among depressed patients with alcohol use disorders” was published 15 years ago in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). In all, 521 mood disordered patients with and without alcohol use disorders were administered a battery of clinical measures including the Scale […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “A false sense of security: Rapid improvement as a red flag for death by suicide” was published in 2022 in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1). Postdischarge from inpatient psychiatry is the highest risk period for suicide. The majority of deaths by suicide postdischarge happened within the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A large suicidology conference entitled “The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (ESSSB20)” took place on August 28-31, 2024, in the “Auditorium Della Tecnica” Convention Center in Rome, Italy. Prof. Dr. Marco Sarchiapone (Italy) was the President of the ESSSB20. The ESSSB20 Scientific Committee consisted of scholars from different countries […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers” was published 20 years ago in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). In this study we focused on age, as an important variable that affects hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Today the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American scientists Victor Ambros, Ph.D. and Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The Nobel committee described their research as a “groundbreaking discovery [that] revealed a […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research work, “Characterizing Veteran suicide decedents that were not classified as high-suicide-risk” has been published in Psychological Medicine online ahead of print (1). According to a 2017 research work (2), approximately 90% of patients treated in the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals that go on to die by suicide […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Association of testosterone levels and future suicide attempts in females with bipolar disorder” was published 10 years ago in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). This was the first prospective study on the relation between suicidal behavior and testosterone in women. We examined whether […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My theoretical paper, “Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention” was published 5 years ago in the August 2019 issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (1). Decades of suicide research have mostly focused on risk factors for suicidal behavior while overlooking protective factors such as resilience that may help to address […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our case study and a review of the relevant literature, “Bipolar disorder, testosterone administration, and homicide: a case report” was published 10 years ago in the August 2014 issue of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice (1). We reported and discussed a case of a patient with bipolar disorder, polysubstance […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On July 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released a Report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives entitled, “Report on Incidence of Military Suicides by Military Job Code” (1-3). This report responds to section 599 of the James M. Inhofe National […]
