Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) are major public health problems that have not
declined appreciably in several decades. One of the first steps to improving the prevention …

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are highly prevalent public health problems with
devastating consequences. There is an urgent need to improve our understanding of risk …

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to
answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly …

It is widely accepted that suicidal behavior often occurs with little planning. We propose,
however, that suicidal behavior is rarely if ever impulsive—that it is too frightening and …

About one million suicides and ten million suicide attempts occur worldwide each year.
Suicide is not simply a response to stress, but generally a complication of a psychiatric …

Objective: Involvement of personality traits in susceptibility to suicidality has been the subject
of research since the 1950s. Because of the diversity of conceptual and methodological …

Suicide is a leading cause of death, but it is not well understood or well researched. Our
purpose in this review is to summarize extant knowledge on neurobiological and …

The concept that genetic factors contribute to the complex trait of suicidal behaviour has
stimulated much work aimed at identifying susceptibility genes. So far molecular genetic …

Background: Alcoholism is a complex, genetically influenced disorder the cause of which
may be better understood through the study of genetically influenced phenotypes that …

BACKGROUND: The prevention of the repetition of suicide attempts is an important feature
of the care of attempters but current data fail to give actual predictors of repetition. The aim of …