Twenty years ago

Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Free thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in patients with seasonal affective disorder and matched controls” was published 20 years ago in the December 1999 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is characterized by seasonal changes in mood and neurovegetative function. Depressions in fall […]

Leo Sher, M.D. Our research note, “Seasonality associated with the serotonin transporter promoter repeat length polymorphism” was published in the November 1999 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry (1). The propensity of people to exhibit changes in mood and behavior with the changing seasons, also known as seasonality, can be viewed as a continuum […]