Leo Sher, M.D. Our review, “Suicide in schizophrenia: An educational overview” was published 5 years ago in the July 2019 issue of Medicina (1). The purpose of our paper was to provide an educational overview of suicidal behavior in individuals with schizophrenia. Suicide is the largest contributor to the decreased life expectancy in individuals with […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Effect of acute alcohol use on the lethality of suicide attempts in patients with mood disorders” was published 15 years ago in the July 2009 issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). We hypothesized that acute alcohol intoxication is associated with more lethal suicide attempts in patients with […]
Yair Elman, Igor Elman, M.D. In the era of instantaneous digital information dissemination, online platforms have become pivotal in shaping (mis)perceptions and guiding clinical approaches to the opioid addiction crisis, presenting new challenges and therapeutic opportunities. In the late 1970s, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and a graduate student who were working […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Suicide-specific cognitions and suicidal behavior in U.S. military veterans” has been published in Psychiatry online ahead of print (1). Suicide-specific cognitions, which generally avoid direct mention of suicide, may be indicators of suicide risk among individuals reluctant to disclose such thoughts and behaviors. Many individuals who experience thoughts of […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Association between familial suicidal behavior and frequency of attempts among depressed suicide attempters” was published 15 years ago in the May 2009 issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (1). The goal of our study was to examine whether having a family history of suicidal behavior among first-degree relatives predicts severity […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A meta-analysis, “Depression, antidepressants and driving safety” was published in Injury Epidemiology in 2017 (1). The purpose of this study was to review the reported associations of depression and antidepressants with motor vehicle crashes. This paper included epidemiologic studies published in English between January 1995 and October 2015. Retrieved articles were systematically […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our research work, “Treatment of depressed bipolar patients with alcohol use disorders: plenty of room for improvement” was published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). Bipolar disorder is often inadequately treated. Patients with bipolar disorder show high rates of treatment nonadherence. Moreover, treatment […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Interplay of combat deployment harassment, testosterone concentrations and post-deployment suicide risk in male veterans” has been published in Acta Neuropsychiatrica online ahead of print (1). Studies suggest that the deployment environment may affect post-deployment suicide risk. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that harassment during a combat deployment […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Metabolic profile and long-term risk of depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders” was recently published in JAMA Network Open (1). The results of this study indicate that carbohydrate and lipid metabolism may be involved in the development of psychiatric disorders. The study assessed individuals from the Apolipoprotein-Related Mortality Risk (AMORIS) […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Associations between adiposity measures and depression and well-being scores: A cross-sectional analysis of middle- to older-aged adults” has recently been published in PLoS One (1). Researchers from the University College Cork in Ireland included 1,821 men and women aged 46-73 years randomly selected from a large primary care center […]
