Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Vegetarian diets and depressive symptoms among men” has recently been published in the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). The authors examined relations between vegetarian/vegan diet and depression in men. Researchers used data from 9668 adult male partners of pregnant women in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A paper, “High inpatient utilization among Veterans Health Administration patients with substance-use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions” has been published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse (1). Service utilization information and demographic and clinical data were obtained from a national sample of Veterans Health Administration patients with substance […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Mushroom consumption and incident dementia in elderly Japanese: The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study” was published in the July 2017 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (1). The authors studied the relationship between mushroom consumption and incident dementia in a population of elderly Japanese individuals. 13,230 individuals […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research paper, “Lithium levels in the public drinking water supply and risk of suicide: A pilot study” is published in the September, 2017 issue of the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology (1). We examined a relation between lithium levels in the drinking water and suicide rates in Lithuania. […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research paper, “Traumatic brain injury and attempted suicide among veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” has recently been published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (1). The authors examined the associations between deployment-related traumatic brain injury, psychiatric diagnoses, and attempted suicide among 273,591 veterans deployed in support of Operation […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Cannabis use disorder and suicide attempts in Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans” has recently been published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). VA researchers from North Carolina studied a relation between the use of cannabis (marijuana) and suicidal behavior. The authors examined the association between a lifetime history of cannabis use […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Updated reported distribution of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the United States, 1995–2016” has been published in the Journal of Medical Entomology (1). The paper was written by a research group from the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A group of researchers from Brazil examined whether serum uric acid levels are associated with cognitive performance in apparently healthy middle-aged participants in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ElSA-Brasil) (1). The researchers reported the results of their study in a paper, “Serum uric acid is associated with better executive function […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Three days ago, The New England Journal of Medicine published a research report, “Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years” (1). The researchers examined data from 68.5 million individuals to measure the changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adults between 1980 and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was classified as an anxiety disorder in the DSM-IV, but has since been reclassified as a “trauma- and stressor-related disorder” in the DSM-5. There have been a lot of debates related to medical and psychosocial aspects of PTSD. An interesting and though-stimulating discussion of the pathophysiology, clinical features […]
