The temptation of suicide: Striatal gray matter, discounting of delayed rewards, and suicide attempts in late-life depression

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1203-1215

  Dombrovski, A Y ^a   Siegle, G J ^a   Szanto, K ^a   Clark, L ^b   Reynolds, C F ^a   Aizenstein, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Corpus striatum; Decision making; Globus pallidus; Putamen; Reward; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASAL GANGLIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84860705267     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711002133     Document Type: Article

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