Leo Sher, M.D.

Professor Zoltan Rihmer, an eminent psychiatrist and a Distinguished Guest of our website and his colleagues have published the article, “Suicide in Hungary – epidemiological and clinical perspectives.” In this article, Professor Rihmer and his associates describe suicide mortality, time trends, gender distribution, and methods of suicide in Hungary. The authors discuss the effect of alcohol consumption, antidepressant prescriptions, unemployment, cigarette smoking, age and marital status on suicidal behavior in Hungary. Professor Rihmer and his colleagues also talk about other aspects of suicidality in Hungary.This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To read the abstract of this article, please click here. To read the full article, please click here.