Sándor Kalmár, M.D. Ph.D. Suicide rate has been extremely high in Hungary for years. The Hungarian suicide behaviour is a curious phenomenon and the suicide rate is high among the Hungarian people all over the worlds.
Leo Sher, M.D. PLoS Medicine, a journal published by the Public Library of Science (2008 Impact Factor = 12.185) has published the article, “Secondary Prevention of Suicide” by Debora Ganz, M. Dolores Braquehais, and Leo Sher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A new study examined the cross-sectional relationship of chocolate consumption with depressed mood in adult men and women (1). The study conducted at the University of California in San Diego and published in a recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that individuals with depressive symptoms eat more chocolate.
The following international scholars contribute articles to this website: Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. (U.S.A) Caroll Aupouri-Mclean (New Zealand) Christopher Bailey (U.S.A.) María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. (Spain) Robertas Bunevicius, M.D., Ph.D. (Lithuania) Bryan S. Cobb (U.S.A.) Cody J. Connor (U.S.A.) Tatiana Elistratova, M.D., Ph.D. (Russia) Jess G. Fiedorowicz, M.D., M.S. (U.S.A.) Frances Finnigan, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The British Journal of Psychiatry published a research report suggesting that eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression (1). Researchers from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London examined data on diet among about 3,500 middle-aged civil servants, splitting participants into two types […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis controls the secretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), corticotropin (adrenocorticotropic hormone, ACTH), and cortisol. The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) is the most frequently used test to assess HPA-system function in psychiatric disorders. Dexamethasone is a synthetic steroid that provides negative feedback to the pituitary to suppress the secretion of […]
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. Complex systems such as the biopsychosociocultural constitution of the human being need to be approached with new converging explanatory frameworks. Current perspectives in psychiatric research are usually reluctant to include novel ideas coming from other fields such as Anthropology, Sociology, and or Philosophy. What may be the reason for […]
Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D. The article by Dr. Sándor Kalmár, “The weekly distribution of suicides in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary” is interesting. I would like to make some comments on this article. First, it is interesting that there are similarities between the methods of suicide used in Akita Prefecture (Japan) and in Bács-Kiskun (Hungary). As in […]
Stanton SJ, Labar KS, Saini EK, Kuhn CM, Beehner JC. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 Jun;35(5):768-74. Social subordination can be biologically stressful; when mammals lose dominance contests they have acute increases in the stress hormone cortisol. However, human studies of the effect of dominance contest outcomes on cortisol […]
Abstracts of the chapters of the following books are now available on our website: Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). Terror and Suicide. Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). Suicide in the Military. Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). War and Suicide. Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). Internet and Suicide. Sher L. (editor). Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol […]
