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Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the June 20, 2022, list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 31,161 articles published since 2012. The current database of articles was compiled on June 20, 2022. The Expertscape version number is vf20p5213. According to Expertscape, the 15 leading […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) announced the launch of Mission Daybreak, a $20 million program designed to help the VA develop new suicide prevention strategies (1,2). The aim of the program is to get a lot of new ideas on how to better help and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The report, “Suicide mortality in the United States, 2000–2020” has recently been published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics (1). According to this report, suicide mortality in the U.S. increased from 2000 to 2018, then decreased from 2018 to 2020. Suicide deaths were identified […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men’s Mental Health was founded in 2013. Currently, the WFSBP Task Force on Men’s Mental Health consists of scholars from many countries in different parts of the world. The updated list of the Task Force Members is below: Founding Chair: […]
Leo Sher, M.D. American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch (1). The Nobel Committee states that “David Julius utilized capsaicin, a pungent compound from chili peppers that induces a burning sensation, to identify a sensor in […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently published the 2021 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (1). This report provides information from 2001 through 2019, while recent prior reports included data from 2005 forward. Also, this report includes the most current data and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A virtual meeting of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men’s Mental Health was held earlier today. Prof. Dr. Zoltan Rihmer (Hungary), Prof. Dr. Timothy Rice (USA), Prof. Dr. Nestor Szerman (Spain), Prof. Dr. Jussi Jokinen (Sweden), Prof. Dr. Dan Rujescu (Austria), Prof. Dr. Peter Falkai […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Provisional information regarding the leading causes of death in the United States has been released by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (1,2). Provisional estimates indicate a 17.7% increase in the number of deaths in 2020 (the increase in the age-adjusted rate was 15.9%) compared with 2019, with increases in many […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has published a Position Statement on Use of the Terms Client and Provider (1). The Position Statement was approved by the APA Assembly in November 2020 and by the APA Board of Trustees in December 2020. The APA states that the terms “provider” and “client” have been […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the January 31, 2021 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 28,433 articles published since 2010. The current database of articles was compiled on January 31, 2021. The Expertscape version number is ua31f1807. According to Expertscape, […]
