Leo Sher, M.D. My theoretical paper, “The concept of post-traumatic mood disorder” was published 15 years ago in a 2005 issue of Medical Hypotheses (1). In my paper, I proposed that some or all individuals diagnosed with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression have a separate psychobiological condition that can be termed “posttraumatic mood […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My research article, “Relation between rates of suicide in 15-24-year-olds and per capita consumption of alcohol beverages in European countries” was published 15 years ago in the July-September 2005 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). In this study, I examined the relation between rates of suicide in […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “The relationship of aggression to suicidal behavior in depressed patients with a history of alcoholism” was published 15 years ago in the July 2005 issue of Addictive Behaviors (1). Studies suggest that depressed individuals with alcoholism have more chronic impairment and suicidal behavior than individuals with either diagnosis alone. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Higher cortisol levels in spring and fall in patients with major depression” was published 15 years ago in the May 2005 issue of Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry (1). We examined whether there is a seasonal effect on clinical parameters, baseline cortisol and prolactin levels, and cortisol and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Higher cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid levels in depressed patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder” was published 15 years ago in the March 2005 issue of European Neuropsychopharmacology (1). In this study, we compared clinical features and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites in drug-free depressed subjects with a current major […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers” was published 15 years ago in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). We examined the effect of age on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system in depressed patients […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our paper, “Prolactin response to fenfluramine administration in patients with unipolar and bipolar depression and healthy controls” was published in Psychoneuroendocrinology (1). In this study, we compared the prolactin response to fenfluramine administration in unipolar depressed patients (major depressive disorder), depressed patients with bipolar disorder, and healthy controls. One […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our paper, “Lower CSF homovanillic acid levels in depressed patients with a history of alcoholism” was published in Neuropsychopharmacology (1). We compared clinical features and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites in depressed subjects with or without a history of alcoholism and healthy volunteers. Sixty-three patients with a current major […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our paper, “A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepers” was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (1). We examined whether individual differences in sleep duration are associated with systematic differences in the duration of the biological night that is programmed by the […]
