Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in war veterans with or without a history of suicide attempt” is published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). Combat veterans with a history of psychiatric disorders are a unique clinical population. We examined whether there is a difference with […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My paper, “Teaching medical professionals and trainees about adolescent suicide prevention: five key problems” was published 10 years ago in the April-June 2012 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). In this article, I suggest that many health care professionals who have frequent contact with adolescents are not […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Pro-inflammatory cytokines and suicidal behavior among patients with bipolar I disorder” is published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). The authors compared the levels of proinflammatory cytokines in bipolar disorder patients with or without suicidal ideation, and between patients with or without a […]
Leo Sher, M.D. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) announced the launch of Mission Daybreak, a $20 million program designed to help the VA develop new suicide prevention strategies (1,2). The aim of the program is to get a lot of new ideas on how to better help and […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. The coronavirus pandemic caused us some hard times – disruption, devastation, and death. Despite a recent rise in COVID-19 disease incidence, there is a general feeling that the illness is diminishing. There are countermeasures to mitigate its severity: several vaccines, monoclonal antibody therapies, and antiviral agents. Vaccines can induce some immunity, monoclonal […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. “Botox”, or botulinum toxin, has long had popular cosmetic use at smoothing facial wrinkles. It is also prescribed for pathologies, mostly of neuromuscular origins, like in pain syndromes and/or muscular spam cases. Many people like and benefit from the results. Researchers began noticing that injecting extracts from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum into […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Decreased suicidal ideation in depressed patients with or without comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: an open study” was published 10 years ago in the April 2012 issue of Psychiatry Research (1). We have examined clinical parameters before and after three months of open selective […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Triggers for suicidal behavior in depressed older adolescents and young adults: do alcohol use disorders make a difference?” was published in the January-March 2007 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). In this study, we compared demographic and clinical characteristics, prevalence of interpersonal triggers and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The report, “Suicide mortality in the United States, 2000–2020” has recently been published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics (1). According to this report, suicide mortality in the U.S. increased from 2000 to 2018, then decreased from 2018 to 2020. Suicide deaths were identified […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Thirty years of publications in suicidology: A bibliometric analysis” has recently been published in Archives of Suicide Research (1). The authors performed a quantitative assessment of publications in suicidology between 1989 and 2018. Web of Science was used to identify publications on suicidal behavior from January 1, 1989 to […]
