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Long COVID and suicide

September 16, 2022

Leo Sher, M.D. A few days ago, Reuters published an article, “Long COVID’s link to suicide: scientists warn of hidden crisis” (1). The authors discuss a possible relation between long COVID and suicide which is an important and probably, underappreciated issue (1,2). The authors report that globally, nearly 150 million people are estimated to have […]

Mortality rates for buprenorphine versus methadone treatments

July 17, 2022

Leo Sher, M.D. The research report “A comparison of mortality rates for buprenorphine versus methadone treatments for opioid use disorder” has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica online ahead of print (1). Researchers compared all-cause mortality, overdose mortality, and suicide mortality rates for buprenorphine and methadone treatments among a large sample of U.S. Department of […]

Leading world experts on suicide. Expertscape, the June 20, 2022, report

June 22, 2022

Expertscape, a leading international rating agency, published the June 20, 2022, list of top world experts in the field of suicidology (1). The list is based on 31,161 articles published since 2012. The current database of articles was compiled on June 20, 2022. The Expertscape version number is vf20p5213. According to Expertscape, the 15 leading […]

Monkeypox: A psychiatrist’s guide

June 19, 2022

Steven Lippmann, M.D. Infectious diseases are big in the news nowadays: monkeypox is spreading worldwide, including in our country. This comes despite rising coronavirus numbers and now we also hear about acute hepatitis affecting children. What if you see a person that might have monkeypox? Here is a quick guide. Consider monkeypox currently if you […]

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in combat veterans with or without a history of suicide attempt

June 15, 2022

Leo Sher, M.D. Our research work, “Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in war veterans with or without a history of suicide attempt” is published in the July 2022 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). Combat veterans with a history of psychiatric disorders are a unique clinical population. We examined whether there is a difference with […]

Teaching medical professionals and trainees about suicide prevention

June 14, 2022

Leo Sher, M.D. My paper, “Teaching medical professionals and trainees about adolescent suicide prevention: five key problems” was published 10 years ago in the April-June 2012 issue of the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (1). In this article, I suggest that many health care professionals who have frequent contact with adolescents are not […]

Pro-inflammatory cytokines and suicidality in patients with bipolar disorder

June 2, 2022

Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Pro-inflammatory cytokines and suicidal behavior among patients with bipolar I disorder” is published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Research (1). The authors compared the levels of proinflammatory cytokines in bipolar disorder patients with or without suicidal ideation, and between patients with or without a […]

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers large prizes for suicide prevention ideas

May 26, 2022

Leo Sher, M.D. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) announced the launch of Mission Daybreak, a $20 million program designed to help the VA develop new suicide prevention strategies (1,2). The aim of the program is to get a lot of new ideas on how to better help and […]

Fluvoxamine attenuates COVID-19 disease

May 19, 2022

Steven Lippmann, M.D. The coronavirus pandemic caused us some hard times – disruption, devastation, and death. Despite a recent rise in COVID-19 disease incidence, there is a general feeling that the illness is diminishing. There are countermeasures to mitigate its severity: several vaccines, monoclonal antibody therapies, and antiviral agents. Vaccines can induce some immunity, monoclonal […]

What? Botox injections can mitigate depressions?

May 17, 2022

Steven Lippmann, M.D.   “Botox”, or botulinum toxin, has long had popular cosmetic use at smoothing facial wrinkles.  It is also prescribed for pathologies, mostly of neuromuscular origins, like in pain syndromes and/or muscular spam cases. Many people like and benefit from the results. Researchers began noticing that injecting extracts from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum into […]

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Editorials

  • Warren v. Dinter and the end of curbside medicine
  • Suicide medical malpractice
  • Dr. Slavko Ziherl, an eminent Slovenian psychiatrist
  • Prevention of suicidal behavior in individuals with diabetes

Research Papers

  • COVID-19 mortality in Europe and the ’Iron Curtain’ between East and West
  • Examination of depressive signs and symptoms among 803 University students in seven Universities and Colleges. Hungary, Romania, Serbia.
  • Examination of spirituality and the dimensions of spirituality among 803 students in seven different Universities. Hungary, Romania and Serbia.
  • Examination of depressive signs and symptoms among 932 students in eight different secondary schools in Hungary

Research News

  • Suicidality in individuals with schizotypal personality disorder
  • Six minutes of daily high-intensity exercise can slow brain aging and delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases
  • Mortality in patients with schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis
  • Long COVID, psychiatric disorders and suicidality

Latest News

  • Leading world experts on suicide. Expertscape, the January 9, 2023, report
  • Best universities in the world
  • Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
  • 2022 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report

Interviews with eminent psychiatrists

  • Interview with Professor Shih-Ku Lin
  • Interview with Professor Masahito Fushimi
  • Interview with Professor Maurizio Pompili
  • Interview with Professor Marco Sarchiapone

Ten Years Ago

  • Plasma testosterone levels in bipolar suicide attempters
  • Teaching medical professionals and trainees about suicide prevention
  • Suicidal ideation in depressed patients with or without comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
  • Treatment of suicide attempters with bipolar disorder: a randomized clinical trial

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