Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “Traumatic brain injury in U.S. veterans: Prevalence and associations with physical, mental, and cognitive health” has been published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation online ahead of print (1). The authors examined the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the U.S. veteran population, and physical, mental, and […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our review article, “International trends in male youth suicide and suicidal behavior” has been published in Acta Neuropsychiatrica (1). To our knowledge, our article is the most comprehensive review of global developments in male youth suicidal behavior in the world literature. A summary of our review paper, “International trends in male youth […]
Leo Sher, M.D. My review article, “The impact of relationships within combat units on post-deployment suicide risk” has been published in Behavioral Sciences (1). This is the first review of the relation between interactions within combat entities and post-deployment suicidality in world literature. A summary of my review is below: “Multiple deployment factors may affect […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research paper, “Bright light therapy for nonseasonal depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis” has been published in JAMA Psychiatry online ahead of print (1). Researchers from Brazil performed a search of publications in the MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane databases for randomized clinical trials evaluating bright light therapy effects in patients […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Objections to suicide among depressed patients with alcohol use disorders” was published 15 years ago in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). In all, 521 mood disordered patients with and without alcohol use disorders were administered a battery of clinical measures including the Scale […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research report, “A false sense of security: Rapid improvement as a red flag for death by suicide” was published in 2022 in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1). Postdischarge from inpatient psychiatry is the highest risk period for suicide. The majority of deaths by suicide postdischarge happened within the […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A large suicidology conference entitled “The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (ESSSB20)” took place on August 28-31, 2024, in the “Auditorium Della Tecnica” Convention Center in Rome, Italy. Prof. Dr. Marco Sarchiapone (Italy) was the President of the ESSSB20. The ESSSB20 Scientific Committee consisted of scholars from different countries […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Our research report, “Age effects on cortisol levels in depressed patients with and without comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder, and healthy volunteers” was published 20 years ago in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders (1). In this study we focused on age, as an important variable that affects hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal […]
Leo Sher, M.D. Today the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American scientists Victor Ambros, Ph.D. and Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The Nobel committee described their research as a “groundbreaking discovery [that] revealed a […]
Leo Sher, M.D. A research work, “Characterizing Veteran suicide decedents that were not classified as high-suicide-risk” has been published in Psychological Medicine online ahead of print (1). According to a 2017 research work (2), approximately 90% of patients treated in the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals that go on to die by suicide […]
