Leo Sher, M.D. Suicide is one of the leading causes of liability against a psychiatrist. Suicide may also be a cause of liability against a non-psychiatric physician. Decreasing the risk of liability requires knowing the phenomenology of suicide, suicide risk assessment, understanding how malpractice cases develop, exploring the issues of foreseeability and risk evaluation, and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepers” was published 20 years ago in the January 2003 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (1). Habitual sleep duration varies considerably among people. We wanted to determine whether individual differences in sleep duration are associated […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Dr. Slavko Ziherl, M.D., Ph.D. (1945 – 2012) was an eminent Slovenian physician. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine in Slovenia. Dr. Ziherl studied psychiatry at the University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana in Slovenia. He also studied psychiatry in the Netherlands, Great Britain, United States, and Canada. Dr. Ziherl […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Does first episode polarity predict risk for suicide attempt in bipolar disorder?” was published 15 years ago in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). We tested the hypothesis that the polarity of a patient’s first mood episode would be a marker for bipolar disorder […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My commentary, “Prevention of suicidal behavior in diabetes: the role of primary care” was published in the QJM: An International Journal of Medicine online ahead of print on July 21, 2022 and included in the December 2022 print issue of the Journal (1). A summary of my article is below: Studies in different countries […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Research.com has just published a list of the best universities in the world (1). According to Research.com, universities from the USA dominate the world ranking with 23.4% of all leading institutions being based in the USA. Harvard University hosts the greatest number of leading scientists in the world, 2113 scholars. According to […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Patients with seasonal affective disorder have lower odor detection thresholds than control subjects” was published 20 years ago in the December 2002 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry (1). Behavioral changes in patients with seasonal affective disorder resemble seasonal changes in photoperiodic animals. The olfactory system has a modulatory […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A review paper, “Mortality in people with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of relative risk and aggravating or attenuating factors” was recently published in World Psychiatry (1). The authors conducted a systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis of prospective and retrospective, nationwide and targeted cohort studies assessing mortality risk in people with […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Depressed multiple-suicide attempters – A high-risk phenotype” was published 5 years ago in the November 2017 issue of Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (1). We compared the demographic and clinical characteristics of three patient groups: depressed patients without a history of suicide attempts (non-attempters), depressed patients […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A review article, “The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence” was published in July 2022, in Molecular Psychiatry online ahead of print (1). The abstract of this review article is below: “The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate evidence on […]
