Leo Sher, M.D. Our research paper, “Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers” was published 15 years ago in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). We examined the effect of age on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system in depressed patients […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our paper, “Prolactin response to fenfluramine administration in patients with unipolar and bipolar depression and healthy controls” was published in Psychoneuroendocrinology (1). In this study, we compared the prolactin response to fenfluramine administration in unipolar depressed patients (major depressive disorder), depressed patients with bipolar disorder, and healthy controls. One […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our paper, “Lower CSF homovanillic acid levels in depressed patients with a history of alcoholism” was published in Neuropsychopharmacology (1). We compared clinical features and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites in depressed subjects with or without a history of alcoholism and healthy volunteers. Sixty-three patients with a current major […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Fifteen years ago, our paper, “A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepers” was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (1). We examined whether individual differences in sleep duration are associated with systematic differences in the duration of the biological night that is programmed by the […]
