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 review, “Suicide in schizophrenia: An educational overview” was published 5 years ago in the July 2019 issue of Medicina (1). The purpose of our paper was to provide an educational overview of suicidal behavior in individuals with schizophrenia. Suicide is the largest contributor to the decreased life expectancy in individuals with […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Gender differences and similarities in aggression, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric comorbidity in borderline personality disorder” was published 5 years ago in the January 2019 issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). In this study, we examined gender differences and similarities in aggression, impulsivity, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric comorbidity […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels in combat veterans with or without a history of suicide attempt” was published 5 years ago, in the July 2018 issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (1). Demographic and clinical parameters of combat veterans who have made a suicide attempt postdeployment and combat veterans who […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Depressed multiple-suicide attempters – A high-risk phenotype” was published 5 years ago in the November 2017 issue of Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (1). We compared the demographic and clinical characteristics of three patient groups: depressed patients without a history of suicide attempts (non-attempters), depressed patients […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Clinical features and psychiatric comorbidities of borderline personality disorder patients with versus without a history of suicide attempt” was published in the December 2016 issue of Psychiatry Research (1). In this study, we compared clinical features of borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients with or without a history of suicide […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My theoretical paper, “Both high and low testosterone levels may play a role in suicidal behavior in adolescent, young, middle-age, and older men: a hypothesis” was published 5 years ago in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health online ahead of print (1). Most but not all investigations of the relationship […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My research article, “Are suicide rates related to the psychiatrist density? A cross-national study” was published 5 years ago, in January 2016, in Frontiers in Public Health (1). Treatment of psychiatric disorders should reduce the number of suicides. Higher psychiatrist-per-population ratio increases the opportunity for contact between the patient and psychiatrist. Generally, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My review article, “Parental alienation: the impact on men’s mental health” was published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 5 years ago, in November 2015 (1). Parental alienation is defined as a mental state in which a child, usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict separation or […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Gender differences in the clinical characteristics and psychiatric comorbidity in patients with antisocial personality disorder” was published 5 years ago in the October 2015 issue of Psychiatry Research (1). Relatively little is known how males and females differ in their manifestations of antisocial personality disorder. We have conducted a […]
