Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neurobiology

Lithium and Antidepressants

Agid, O., Lerer, B.: Common errors in the prescription of psychotropic drugs. Harefua 131: 451-452, 1997 (In Hebrew) (Letter).

Kasper, S., Bech, P., De Jonghe F., De Sousa, M.P., Dinan, T., Guelfo, J.D., Higuchi, T., Larsen, J.K., Lecrubier, J.P., Lerer, B., Neumeister, A., Papadimitriou, G., Paykel, E.S., Poldinger, W., Svestka, J., Walter, H.: Treatment of unipolar major depression: algorithms for pharmacotherapy. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 1(Suppl. 1): S5-S7, 1997.

Gelfin, Y., Gorfine, M., Lerer, B.: Effect of clinically equivalent fluoxetine administration on mood and other psychological parameters in healthy volunteers. American Journal of Psychiatry 155: 290-292, 1998

Reus, V.I., Lerer, B.: Cosmetic psychopharmacology: Do antidepressants modify normal behavior. Medical Crossfire 7: 44-55, 1999.

Agid, O., Shalev A.Y., Lerer, B.: Triiodothyronine augmentation of specific serotonin reuptake inhibitors in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (In Press).

ECT

Shapira, B., Lerer, B.: Choosing a dosing strategy for electrical stimulation in ECT: Rejoinder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 57: 487-488, 1996 (Letter)

Shapira, B, Tubi, N., Drexler, H., Lidsky, D., Calev, A., Lerer, B.: Cost and benefit in the choice of ECT schedule: A new controlled trial of twice versus three times weekly ECT. British Journal of Psychiatry 172: 44-48, 1998.

Lerer, B.: The neurobiology of ECT: The road taken. Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy (Editorial) 14: 149-152, 1998.

Shapira, B., Lerer, B.: Speed of response to bilateral ECT: An examination of possible predictors in two controlled trials. Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy 15: 202-206, 1999.

Bachar, E., Shapira, B., Lerer, B.: Increment in reminiscing after ECT: Possible connections to neuropsychological changes. Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy 15:165-166, 1999 (Letter).

Lerer, B.: The neurobiology of ECT: The road ahead. Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy (Editorial) 15: 1-4, 1999.

Shapira, B., Tubi, N., Lerer, B.: Balancing speed of response to ECT in major depression and adverse cognitive effects: Role of treatment schedule. Journal of Electroconvulsive Therapy (In Press).

Affective Disorders Clinical

Agid, O., Kotek, S., Lerer, B.: Depression: From Ancient Greece to modern times - Aetiology, diagnosis and treatment. Harefua 131: 598-603, 1997 (In Hebrew).
Morag, M., Yirmiyah, R., Lerer, B., Morag, A.: Influence of socioeconomic status on behavioral, emotional and cognitive effects of rubella vaccination: A prospective, double blind study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 23: 337-51, 1998.

Agid, O., Lerer, B.: Risperidone augmentation of paroxetine in a case of severe, treatment refractory obsessive compulsive disorder without comorbid psychopathology. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 60: 55-56, 1999 (Letter).

Morag, M., Morag, A., Reichenberg, A., Lerer, B., Yirmiyah, R.: Psychological variables as predictors of rubella antibody titers and fatigue - a prospective, double blind study. Journal of Psychiatric Research 33:389-95, 1999.

Shapira, B., Zislin, J., Gelfin., Y., Osher, Y., Gorfine, M., Souery, D., Mendlewicz, J., Lerer, B.: Social adjustment and self esteem in remitted patients with unipolar and bipolar affective disorder: A case control study. Comprehensive Psychiatry 40: 24-30, 1999.

Agid, O., Shapira, B., Zislin, J., Ritsner, M., Hanin, B., Murad, H., Troudart, T., Bloch, M., Heresco-Levy, U., Lerer, B.: Environment and vulnerability to major psychiatric illness: A case control study of early parental loss in major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry 4: 163-172, 1999.

Lerer, B., Shapira B., Bloch M., Hanin B., Troudart T., Alexander JR, Popper M., Braun D., Segman RH., Ritsner M.: Possible precipitants of psychiatric hospitalisation in patients with major depression: Results from the Jerusalem Collaborative Depression Project. Depression and Anxiety 9: 156-162, 1999.

Canetti, L., Bachar, E., Bonne, O., Agid, O., Lerer, B., Kaplan De-Nour A., Shalev, A.Y.: The impact of parental death versus separation from parents on the mental health of Israeli adolescents. Comprehensive Psychiatry (In Press).

Agid, O., Kohn, Y., Lerer, B.: Environmental stress and psychiatric illness. Biomedicine and Pharmcotherapy. 54: 135-41, 2000

Kohn, Y., Zislin, J., Agid, O., Hanin, B., Troudart, T., Shapira, S., Bloch, M., Gur, E., Ritsner, M., Lerer, B.: Increased prevalence of negative life events in subtypes of major depressive disorder Comprehensive Psychiatry (In Press).

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Newman, M.E., Shapira, B., Lerer, B.: Evaluation of central serotonergic function in affective and related disorders by the fenfluramine challenge test: a critical review. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 1: 49-70, 1998.

Lerer, B., Gelfin Y., Gorfine M., Allolio, B., Lesch, K.P., Newman, M.E.: 5-HT1A receptor function in normal subjects on clinical doses of fluoxetine: Blunted temperature and hormone responses to ipsapirone challenge. Neuropsychopharmacology 20: 628-639, 1999.

Newman, M.E., Li, Q., Gelfin, Y., Van de Kar, L.D., Lerer, B.: Low doses of ispsapirone increase growth hormone but not oxytocin secretion in normal male and female subjects. Psychopharmacology 145: 99-104, 1999.

Lerer, B., Gelfin, Y., Shapira, B.: Neuroendocrine evidence for age-related decline in central serotonergic function. Neuropsychopharmacology 21: 321-2, 1999 (Letter).

Shapira, B., Newman. M.E., Gelfin, Y., Lerer, B.: Blunted temperature and hormone responses to ipsapirone in major depression: Lack of enhancement by electroconvulsive therapy. Psychoneuroendocrinology 25:421-438, 2000.