Lethal forethought: Delayed reward discounting differentiates high- and low-lethality suicide attempts in old age

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 138-144

  Dombrovski, Alexandre Y ^a,d   Szanto, Katalin ^a   Siegle, Greg J ^a   Wallace, Meredith L ^a   Forman, Steven D ^a,b   Sahakian, Barbara ^c   Reynolds III, Charles F ^a   Clark, Luke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; choice behavior; cognition; decision making; depressive disorder; executive function; reward; suicide; time perception

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LETHALITY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REWARD; SENESCENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VIOLENCE;

AGED; AGING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; REWARD; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 79959708448     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

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