Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Does cannabis use in adolescence predict self-harm or suicide? Results from a Finnish Birth-Cohort Study” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 with linkage to nationwide register data was used to study the association of self-reported cannabis use […]
Graham J McDougall, Ph.D., R.N., Keenan A. Pituch, Ph.D., Geraldine Martorella, Ph.D., R.N., Todd Monroe, Ph.D., R.N. Purpose. In this secondary analysis we tested whether 12 hours of Senior WISE (Wisdom Is Simply Exploration) memory or health training with older adults would produce better outcomes by gender in perceptions of anxiety and bodily pain and whether the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Plasma testosterone levels and subsequent suicide attempts in males with bipolar disorder” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). In this study, we examined whether higher testosterone levels predict future suicide attempts in males with bipolar disorder and a history of suicide attempt. Sixteen […]
Zoltan Rihmer, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Zsuzsanna Bélteczky, M.D., Leo Sher, M.D. COVID-19 pandemic resulted in various levels of elevated mortality in every data reporting country. According to the report of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center on the national COVID-19 death rates (number of deaths per 100,000 of the population) on September 27, 2021 (1), […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Lyme borreliosis and associations with mental disorders and suicidal behavior: a nationwide Danish cohort study” has been published in the October 2021 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry (1). According to this population-based retrospective cohort study, people with Lyme disease showed higher rates of a variety of psychiatric […]
Amal Mumtaz, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. Though improving slightly, we are still deep in the coronavirus pandemic. Beyond just being infected and getting sick or dying, there is considerable concern about short- and long-term sequela. Many of these involve neuropsychiatric manifestations. What are they? To start with, there is much general anxiety and uncertainty about […]
Aya Allam, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. Besides all the pandemic talk these days, we hear lots about coronavirus treatment with monoclonal antibodies. There are many of them. What is the big deal? Casirivimab and imdevimab are two monoclonal antibodies synthesized by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron, brand-named REGEN-COV. These dual proteins are a monoclonal antibodies intervention […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Clinical features and psychiatric comorbidities in military veterans with schizophrenia with or without suicidality” is published in the November 2021 issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). There is a need to increase our understanding of what elevates suicide risk in veterans with schizophrenia as a first step […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Treatment of suicide attempters with bipolar disorder: a randomized clinical trial comparing lithium and valproate in the prevention of suicidal behavior” was published in the October 2011 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry (1). In our double-blind, randomized, parallel-group study, we tested the hypothesis that lithium offers bipolar […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research article, “Changes in suicide mortality of Hungary during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic” has been published in Orvosi Hetilap, a Hungarian medical journal (1). The authors compared the observed number of suicides during the COVID-19 pandemic in March–December 2020 with the expected numbers which were calculated based on […]
