Leo Sher, M.D. The British Journal of Psychiatry published a research report suggesting that eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression (1). Researchers from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London examined data on diet among about 3,500 middle-aged civil servants, splitting participants into two types […]
Leo Sher, M.D. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis controls the secretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), corticotropin (adrenocorticotropic hormone, ACTH), and cortisol. The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) is the most frequently used test to assess HPA-system function in psychiatric disorders. Dexamethasone is a synthetic steroid that provides negative feedback to the pituitary to suppress the secretion of […]
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. Complex systems such as the biopsychosociocultural constitution of the human being need to be approached with new converging explanatory frameworks. Current perspectives in psychiatric research are usually reluctant to include novel ideas coming from other fields such as Anthropology, Sociology, and or Philosophy. What may be the reason for […]
Masahito Fushimi, M.D., Ph.D. The article by Dr. Sándor Kalmár, “The weekly distribution of suicides in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary” is interesting. I would like to make some comments on this article. First, it is interesting that there are similarities between the methods of suicide used in Akita Prefecture (Japan) and in Bács-Kiskun (Hungary). As in […]
Stanton SJ, Labar KS, Saini EK, Kuhn CM, Beehner JC. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 Jun;35(5):768-74. Social subordination can be biologically stressful; when mammals lose dominance contests they have acute increases in the stress hormone cortisol. However, human studies of the effect of dominance contest outcomes on cortisol […]
Abstracts of the chapters of the following books are now available on our website: Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). Terror and Suicide. Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). Suicide in the Military. Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). War and Suicide. Sher L., Vilens A. (editors). Internet and Suicide. Sher L. (editor). Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol […]
José Javier Miguel-Hidalgo Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Major depression and alcoholism are often comorbid, suggesting that common pathological mechanisms may be responsible for the increased comorbidity. In fact, neuropathological […]
Elizabeth D. Stroscio and Leo Sher Department of Psychiatry, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Jamaica, New York, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Alcohol use has been identified as an important risk factor for suicidal […]
Sirkka Peiponen Private Psychiatric Practice, Kuopio, Finland Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Earlier research has indicated associations between parental substance abuse and psychiatric problems in adolescents. This article aims to review studies of alcohol abusing parents and their offspring, to discuss the consequences of […]
Julie A. Patock-Peckham(1), Antonio A. Morgan-Lopez(2), and Mallary Kleeschulte(3) (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, USA; (2)RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA; (3)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, USA Comorbidity of Depression and Alcohol Use Disorders. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009, 198 pages. Relationships with parental role […]
