Leo Sher, M.D. A research paper, “Traumatic brain injury and attempted suicide among veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” has recently been published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (1). The authors examined the associations between deployment-related traumatic brain injury, psychiatric diagnoses, and attempted suicide among 273,591 veterans deployed in support of Operation […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Cannabis use disorder and suicide attempts in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans” has recently been published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). VA researchers from North Carolina studied a relation between the use of cannabis (marijuana) and suicidal behavior. The authors examined the association between a lifetime history of cannabis use […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Updated reported distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the United States, 1995–2016” has been published in the Journal of Medical Entomology (1). The paper was written by a research group from the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A group of researchers from Brazil examined whether serum uric acid levels are associated with cognitive performance in apparently healthy middle-aged participants in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ElSA-Brasil) (1). The researchers reported the results of their study in a paper, “Serum uric acid is associated with better executive function […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Three days ago, The New England Journal of Medicine published a research report, “Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years” (1). The researchers examined data from 68.5 million individuals to measure the changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults between 1980 and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was classified as an anxiety disorder in the DSM-IV, but has since been reclassified as a “trauma- and stressor-related disorder” in the DSM-5. There have been a lot of debates related to medical and psychosocial aspects of PTSD. An interesting and though-stimulating discussion of the pathophysiology, clinical features […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report entitled, “Evaluation of cholesterol as a biomarker for suicidality in a veteran sample” has been published in Research in Nursing & Health (1). The authors state that the objective of their study was to evaluate total cholesterol as a biological marker for suicidality in a sample of military veterans. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Available evidence suggests that higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity are associated with larger brain volume, fewer brain atrophy, slower dementia progression and decreased risk of cognitive impairment (1). Increased cardiorespiratory fitness also reduces the harmful influences of cerebral amyloid on cognition. A research group from the University of Kansas […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A Danish research group published a thought-provoking research paper entitled, “State-dependent alterations in inhibitory control and emotional face identification in seasonal affective disorder” (1). The researchers recruited 29 persons between the ages of 18 and 45 years diagnosed with winter – seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and 30 demographically matched controls with no […]
Leo Sher, M.D. An article entitled, “Retinal thickness in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis” was recently published in the journal Alzheimer’s & dementia: diagnosis, assessment & disease monitoring (1). A research group from the Netherlands performed a meta-analysis of research studies of retinal thickness in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment patients and […]
