Education

Biography

Dr. Casher graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1976. He works in Ann Arbor, MI and specializes in Psychiatry. Dr. Casher is affiliated with University Of Michigan Med Ctr. He speaks English.

Research Interest

• Inpatient Psychiatry
• Clinical Psychopharmacology
• Assessment of Insight
• Psychodynamic theory and practice

Professional Activities:

Publications

1. Casher M, Bostwick J:  LITHIUM: Tips for Appropriate Use of the Comeback Drug. Current Psychiatry, Vol. 7, No.5, p 59-60, May 2008
2. Casher M, Gih D:  Complex case: Emergence of borderline personality features in the               sixth decade of life. Personality and Mental Health, Vol.3, No.1, p 68-73, Feb 2009
3. Casher M, Bostwick J, and Feurino III: When is lamotrigine a good choice? Current Psychiatry, Vol.9. No.10, Oct 2010
4. Bess J, Casher M: The Academic Psychiatric Hospitalist: a Model for Treatment and Training in the Academic Inpatient Setting. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, Vol 17, No.2, p.145-151, Mar 2011.
5. Casher M, Glick R:  Optimizing Patient Transfer from the Psychiatric Service (PES) to the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit. Journal of the American Assoc for Emergency Psychiatry. Vol 9, Issue 1, p.8-15, 2011
6. Casher M, Gih D, Bess J: Benzodiazepines and Stimulants in Patients with Substance Use Disorders. Current Psychiatry, May 2011
7. Gih D, Bostwick J, and Casher M:  Augmenting antidepressants with triiodothyronine: An underutilized strategy.  Current Psychiatry, vol 10, No.7, p. 43-44, July 2011        
8. Casher M, Bostwick J, Yu M:  How to prevent adverse drug events. Current Psychiatry, vol 10, No.7, p.55-64, July 2011
9. Casher M, Bess J:  Determination and Documentation of Insight in Psychiatric Inpatients: a Crucial and Often Neglected Mental Status Item.  Psychiatric Times, vol.29, No.4, p. 34-39, Apr 2012
10. Bostwick J, Casher M, Yasugi S:  Benzodiazepines: update on current use for anxiety and other conditions.  Current Psychiatry, vol.11, No. 4, p 55-63, Apr 2012
11. Casher M, Schuldt S, Haq A, Burkhead-Weiner D: Chronotherapy in Treatment-Resistant Depression. Psychiatric Annals. vol. 42, No.5, p.166-169, May 2012
12. Casher M, Gih D, Bess J, Agarwala P: Confounding Factors in Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) - Part 1: The role of subtyping and bipolarity.  Psychiatric Times, vol. 29, No.7, p.36-38, July 2012
13. Casher M, Gih D, Bess J, Agarwala P: Confounding Factors in Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) - Part 2: Comorbidities and Treatment Resistance.  Psychiatric Times, vol. 29, No.8, Aug 2012
14. Casher M, Kuebler J, Bastida M, Chipps S: How to work with psychiatric-mental health practitioners.  Current Psychiatry, vol.11, No.11, Nov 2012
15. Casher M: There’s no such thing as a patient – Reflections on the significance of the work of DW Winnicott for modern inpatient psychiatric treatment. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. vol 21, No.8, p.181-187, Aug 2013
16. Tai M, Casher M, Bostwick J:  How to prevent misuse of psychotropics among college students. Current Psychiatry. Vol 14, No.8, p29-45, Aug 2015.
17. Johnson J, Wu C, Winder GS, Casher M, Bostwick J: The effects of cannabis on inpatient agitation, aggression, and length-of-stay in patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder, submitted for publication
18. Lee J, Dalack G, Casher M, Eappen S, Bostwick J: Persistence of metabolic monitoring for psychiatry inpatients treated with second-generation antipsychotics.  Accepted for publication in Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2016

Books

• Casher M, Bess J: Manual of Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment, 
  Cambridge University Press (2010); Polish translation/ edition was released in 2013

Book Chapters

• Jibson M, Casher M, Figueroa S, How to Approach Clinical Supervision, in The Academic Medicine Handbook : A Guide toAchievement and Fulfillment for Academic Faculty, Roberts L, editor, Springer Publishing (2013)