Hema Mekala, M.D., Sayeda Basith, M.D., Lalasa Doppalapudi, M.D., Kaushal Shah, M.D. Food refusal is commonly seen in hospitalized patients with mental illness resulting in cachexia and death if left untreated. In acute conditions, it may lead to a medical emergency. If it is a chronic issue, it can become an ingrained behavior that is […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Clinical features of depressed patients with or without a family history of alcoholism” was published 15 years ago in the October 2005 issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (1). We compared clinical features of depressed patients without alcoholism but with a family history of alcoholism to depressed patients without alcoholism […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Yesterday, on October 17, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed into law a bill titled the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 that will make 9-8-8 the universal telephone number to reach the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in the United States starting in 2022 (1,2). The National […]
Shivam Gulati, M.D., Simrat Kaur Sarai, M.D., Steven Lippmann, M.D. The coronavirus global pandemic has mandated public health measures including physical distancing and self-quarantining. To reduce the transmission of this disease, stay-at-home mandates have been implemented across the United States. Unfortunately, everyone is not finding safety in isolation (1,2). Reportedly, many domestic violence victims are […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Association of a prior psychiatric diagnosis with mortality among hospitalized patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection” was published yesterday, on September 30, 2020 in the JAMA Network Open (1). This cohort study was conducted at Yale New Haven Health System, a 5-hospital system in the Northeast of the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our theoretical work, “Posttraumatic stress disorder in war veterans: a discussion of the Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle” was published 10 years ago in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). The “Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle” of innate fears suggests that high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after combat exposure […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Pleiotropy of the serotonin transporter gene for seasonality and neuroticism” was published 20 years ago in the September 2000 issue of Psychiatric Genetics (1). Pleiotropy refers to the ability of a single gene to influence multiple traits. A polymorphism in the regulatory region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Today, September 17, 2020 is the third Annual National Physician Suicide Awareness Day in the U.S. Each physician suicide is a devastating loss affecting family, friends, and colleagues. The Day is dedicated to honoring the memory of colleagues who have died by suicide and to continue to raise awareness and discussion on […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published a September 2020 list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 26,778 articles published since 2010. According to Expertscape, the 20 leading world experts on suicide are: Maurizio Pompili (Italy) – top 0.0016% of published authors worldwide […]
Keerthika Mathialagan, M.B.B.S., Steven Lippmann, M.D. To remain socially connected amid COVID-19 stay-at-home measures, many people utilize virtual platforms through online gaming. Approximately two-thirds of all Americans play video games daily, and quarantining measures increased usage of such online practices to facilitate peer relationships (1). The World Health Organization and numerous gaming companies promote initiatives […]
