A study of brain metabolic responses to a serotonergic challenge in major depression with or without comorbid alcohol dependence

Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Positron emission tomography study of regional brain metabolic responses to a serotonergic challenge in major depressive disorder with and without comorbid lifetime alcohol dependence” was published 15 years ago in the September 2007 issue of European Neuropsychopharmacology (1). In this study, we compared the regional glucose metabolic rate (rCMRglu) […]

2022 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report

Leo Sher, M.D. The 2022 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report was released on September 19, 2022 (1). It shows that Veteran suicides decreased in 2020 for the second year in a row. Fewer Veterans died by suicide in 2020 than in any year since 2006. In 2020, there were 6,146 Veteran suicide deaths, which […]

National Respect Day

Leo Sher, M.D. Today, on Sunday, September 18, National Respect Day is celebrated in the U.S. Let’s reflect deeper about how we treat the people around us and make changes wherever necessary. A good place to start is by active listening and treating other people as we want to be treated. Let’s respectfully consider the […]

Long COVID and suicide

Leo Sher, M.D. A few days ago, Reuters published an article, “Long COVID’s link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis” (1). The authors discuss a possible relation between long COVID and suicide which is an important and probably, underappreciated issue (1,2). The authors report that globally, nearly 150 million people are estimated to have […]

Mortality rates for buprenorphine versus methadone treatments

Leo Sher, M.D. The research report “A comparison of mortality rates for buprenorphine versus methadone treatments for opioid use disorder” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). Researchers compared all-cause mortality, overdose mortality, and suicide mortality rates for buprenorphine and methadone treatments among a large sample of U.S. Department of […]

Leading world experts on suicide. Expertscape, the June 20, 2022, report

Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the June 20, 2022, list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 31,161 articles published since 2012. The current database of articles was compiled on June 20, 2022. The Expertscape version number is vf20p5213. According to Expertscape, the 15 leading […]

Monkeypox: A psychiatrist’s guide

Steven Lippmann, M.D. Infectious diseases are big in the news nowadays: monkeypox is spreading worldwide, including in our country. This comes despite rising coronavirus numbers and now we also hear about acute hepatitis affecting children. What if you see a person that might have monkeypox? Here is a quick guide. Consider monkeypox currently if you […]

Teaching medical professionals and trainees about suicide prevention

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 […]

Pro-inflammatory cytokines and suicidality in patients with bipolar disorder

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 […]

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