Jacob M. Appel, M.D., J.D. Sometimes it takes one injustice to shed light upon another. That is the case with recent attention being paid to the exclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding individuals from vaccine trials for COVID-19. In the United States, where the FDA has included these individuals in the emergency use authorizations, the immediate […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Demographic and clinical features of adolescents and young adults with alcohol-related disorders admitted to the psychiatric emergency room” was published 15 years ago in the January-March 2006 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). The purposes of our study were to determine the prevalence of […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has published a Position Statement on Use of the Terms Client and Provider (1). The Position Statement was approved by the APA Assembly in November 2020 and by the APA Board of Trustees in December 2020. The APA states that the terms “provider” and “client” have been […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the January 31, 2021 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 28,433 articles published since 2010. The current database of articles was compiled on January 31, 2021. The Expertscape version number is ua31f1807. According to Expertscape, […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research article, “Modified dexamethasone suppression-corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test: A pilot study of young healthy volunteers and implications for alcoholism research in adolescents and young adults” was published 15 years ago in the January-March 2006 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) is […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder: retrospective cohort studies of 62 354 COVID-19 cases in the USA” was published in Lancet Psychiatry online ahead of print on November 9, 2020 and included in the February 01, 2021 issue of the Journal (1). The authors used the TriNetX Analytics […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My review article, “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide rates” was published in the QJM: An International Journal of Medicine online ahead of print on June 15, 2020 and included in the October 2020 print issue of the Journal (1). A summary of my article is below: Multiple lines of […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Mental health problems among healthcare workers involved with the COVID-19 outbreak” has been published in the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry online ahead of print (1). A cross-sectional online study was conducted with a sample of 5,938 Mexican healthcare professionals who completed brief screening measures of mental health problems and […]
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. […]
