Leo Sher, M.D. My research article, “Are suicide rates related to the psychiatrist density? A cross-national study” was published 5 years ago, in January 2016, in Frontiers in Public Health (1). Treatment of psychiatric disorders should reduce the number of suicides. Higher psychiatrist-per-population ratio increases the opportunity for contact between the patient and psychiatrist. Generally, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research work, “Associations between depression and cardiometabolic health: A 27-year longitudinal study” was published a few days ago in Psychological Medicine online ahead of print (1). Physical and mental health interact throughout the life. The authors examined whether depression symptoms in midlife are associated with the subsequent onset of cardiometabolic disorders. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Prevalence of alcohol misuse among adolescents and young adults evaluated in a primary care setting” was published 15 years ago in the January-March 2006 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). The prevalence of alcohol misuse among older adolescents and young adults was evaluated in […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Lower cerebrospinal fluid homovanillic acid levels in depressed suicide attempters” was published 15 years ago in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). Depressed suicide attempters constitute a heterogenous group and important differences may exist between depressed suicide attempters with or without Axis II disorders. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research article, “The effect of oral dexamethasone administration on testosterone levels in combat veterans with or without a history of suicide attempt” has been published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research online ahead of print (1). Combat exposure has been linked to increased risk of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and death […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published a December 2020 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 27,743 articles published since 2010. The current database of articles was compiled on Friday, December 4, 2020. According to Expertscape, the 20 leading world experts on […]
Sahil Naik, M.D., Nivedita Jha, M.D., Shivani Naik, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. The coronavirus disease COVID-19 can be infectious to everyone, from newborns to elderly people. The impact of COVID-19 during pregnancy is not known, but is a matter of concern regarding perinatal and maternal outcomes (1). Physiological cardiovascular changes with increased metabolism, higher oxygen […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My review article, “Parental alienation: the impact on men’s mental health” was published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 5 years ago, in November 2015 (1). Parental alienation is defined as a mental state in which a child, usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict separation or […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Gender differences in the clinical characteristics and psychiatric comorbidity in patients with antisocial personality disorder” was published 5 years ago in the October 2015 issue of Psychiatry Research (1). Relatively little is known how males and females differ in their manifestations of antisocial personality disorder. We have conducted a […]
Robert Frierson, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. The emergence of coronavirus infections has had a profound impact on most physicians, including psychiatrists. The stress on doctors prompted a survey of Louisville, KY physicians, to inquire about discomfort experienced when caring for patients during this current pandemic. The ways that these clinicians achieved some relief was recorded. […]
