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. […]
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) […]
