A neural basis for the acquired capability for suicide

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2016, Pages

  Deshpande, Gopikrishna ^a,b,c   Baxi, Madhura ^a,d   Witte, Tracy ^b   Robinson, Jennifer L ^a,b,c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Diffusion tensor imaging; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Gender difference; Meta analysis; Meta analytic functional connectivity; Structural connectivity; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED CAPABILITY FOR SUICIDE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF SUICIDE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SENSATION SEEKING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 84988811901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00125     Document Type: Article

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