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Overview

Leo Sher is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a notable focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Their work also intersects with social psychology, neurology, and pharmacology.

The scientist has an extensive publication record in several journals. The most frequent venues include QJM, Acta Neuropsychiatrica, Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, Medical Clinics of North America, and Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

Research topics frequently addressed by Leo Sher include suicide and self-harm studies, COVID-19 and mental health, long-term effects of COVID-19, resilience and mental health, mental health treatment and access, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and stress responses and cortisol.

Some of the recent papers authored by Leo Sher include:

  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide rates, 2020, QJM
  • COVID-19, anxiety, sleep disturbances and suicide, 2020, Sleep Medicine
  • Post-COVID syndrome and suicide risk, 2021, QJM
  • Are COVID-19 survivors at increased risk for suicide?, 2020, Acta Neuropsychiatrica
  • The psychological impact of COVID-19 on the mental health in the general population, 2020, QJM (authored by Gianluca Serafini; frequently cited alongside Sher's collaborative works)

Leo Sher has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Joshua Levine, Gianluca Serafini, Linda M. Bierer, Iouri Makotkine, and Rachel Yehuda, with multiple joint publications across various topics related to mental health and pandemic impacts.

Best Publications

  • The psychological impact of COVID-19 on the mental health in the general population.

    Gianluca Serafini;Bianca Parmigiani;Andrea Amerio;Andrea Aguglia

  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide rates.

    Leo Sher;Leo Sher;Leo Sher

  • Suicidal Behavior and Alcohol Abuse

    Maurizio Pompili;Gianluca Serafini;Marco Innamorati;Giovanni Dominici

  • Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive - compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in primary care

    Borwin Bandelow;Leo Sher;Robertas Bunevicius;Eric Hollander

  • Epidemiology of suicide in bipolar disorders: a systematic review of the literature.

    Maurizio Pompili;Xenia Gonda;Gianluca Serafini;Marco Innamorati

  • A circadian signal of change of season in patients with seasonal affective disorder.

    Thomas A. Wehr;Wallace C. Duncan;Leo Sher;Daniel Aeschbach

  • COVID-19, anxiety, sleep disturbances and suicide.

    Leo Sher

  • Non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, endogenous opioids and monoamine neurotransmitters.

    Barbara Stanley;Leo Sher;Scott Wilson;Rolf Ekman

  • Alcoholism and suicidal behavior: a clinical overview.

    Leo Sher

  • Alcohol consumption and suicide

    Leo Sher

  • Is impulsivity a link between childhood abuse and suicide

    M. Dolores Braquehais;Maria A. Oquendo;Enrique Baca-García;Leo Sher

  • A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepers

    Daniel Aeschbach;Leo Sher;Teodor T. Postolache;Jeffery R. Matthews

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide risk among veterans: A literature review

    Maurizio Pompili;Leo Sher;Gianluca Serafini;Alberto Forte

  • Type D personality : the heart, stress, and cortisol

    L. Sher

  • Suicide in Schizophrenia : An Educational Overview

    Leo Sher;René S Kahn;René S Kahn

  • Alcohol use disorders increase the risk of completed suicide — Irrespective of other psychiatric disorders. A longitudinal cohort study

    Trine Flensborg-Madsen;Trine Flensborg-Madsen;Joachim Knop;Erik Lykke Mortensen;Ulrik Becker

  • The Relationship of Aggression to Suicidal Behavior in Depressed Patients With a History of Alcoholism

    Leo Sher;Maria A. Oquendo;Hanga C. Galfalvy;Michael F. Grunebaum

  • Resilience as a focus of suicide research and prevention.

    Leo Sher;Leo Sher

  • Treatment of suicide attempters with bipolar disorder: a randomized clinical trial comparing lithium and valproate in the prevention of suicidal behavior.

    Maria A. Oquendo;Hanga C. Galfalvy;Dianne Currier;Michael F. Grunebaum

  • Testing the self-medication hypothesis of depression and aggression in cannabis-dependent subjects.

    Mikkel Arendt;Raben Rosenberg;Lone Fjordback;Jack Brandholdt

  • Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Second Edition

    Leo Sher

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria A. Oquendo
Maria A. Oquendo University of Pennsylvania
Gil Zalsman
Gil Zalsman Tel Aviv University
Marco Innamorati
Marco Innamorati European University of Rome
Gianluca Serafini
Gianluca Serafini University of Genoa
Hanga Galfalvy
Hanga Galfalvy Columbia University
Barbara Stanley
Barbara Stanley Columbia University
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Mario Amore
Mario Amore University of Genoa
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
J. John Mann
J. John Mann Columbia University

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