Designing clinical trials to assess the impact of pharmacological treatment for suicidal ideation/behavior: issues and potential solutions

Z Yao, WV McCall - Pharmaceutical medicine, 2023 - Springer
Suicide is a serious and growing public health concern yet randomized controlled trials
(RCTs) that inform pharmacologic treatment remain limited. We emphasize the overall need …

Suicidal ideation and obsessive-compulsive disorder: links and knowledge

LL Benster, CR Weissman… - Psychology research and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Suicidal ideation (SI) is understudied in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Nonetheless, evidence suggests increased risk for SI in individuals with OCD compared to …

Can we predict or prevent suicide?: An update

J Paris - Preventive medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
This article updates a 2006 review of empirical data concerning whether clinicians can
predict whether patients will die by suicide, or whether fatality can be prevented. Based on …

Low dose oral ketamine treatment in chronic suicidality: an open-label pilot study

AT Can, DF Hermens, M Dutton, CC Gallay… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Recently, low-dose ketamine has been proposed as a rapid-acting treatment option for
suicidality. The majority of studies to date have utilised intravenous (IV) ketamine, however …

Suicidality in Huntington's disease

AAM Hubers, N Reedeker, EJ Giltay, RAC Roos… - Journal of affective …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: In Huntington's disease (HD) the risk of suicide is increased. Since
suicidality may precede suicide, this study investigates prevalence, clinical associations and …

[HTML][HTML] Physiology, serotonin

OA Bamalan, MJ Moore, Y Al Khalili - 2019 - europepmc.org
Serotonin, or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is a neurotransmitter with an integral physiological
role in the human body; it is involved in regulating various activities (eg, behavior, mood …

Using genetic drug-target networks to develop new drug hypotheses for major depressive disorder

HA Gaspar, Z Gerring, C Hübel… - Translational …, 2019 - nature.com
The major depressive disorder (MDD) working group of the Psychiatric Genomics
Consortium (PGC) has published a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for MDD in …

Genetic Background Underlying 5-HT1A Receptor Functioning Affects the Response to Fluoxetine

EM Kondaurova, AY Rodnyy, TV Ilchibaeva… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The influence of genetic background on sensitivity to drugs represents a topical problem of
personalized medicine. Here, we investigated the effect of chronic (20 mg/kg, 14 days, ip) …

Maternal separation affects anxiety-like behavior beginning in adolescence and continuing through adulthood and related to Dnmt3a expression

X Wang, L Jiang, W Ma, X Zheng… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Early life stress, including maternal separation, is among one of the main causes of anxiety
in adolescents. DNA methyltransferase 3A (Dnmt3a) is a key molecule that regulates DNA …

Development of an improvisational music therapy intervention for young adults with depressive symptoms: An intervention mapping study

S Aalbers, A Vink, RE Freeman, K Pattiselanno… - The Arts in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Depression is a highly prevalent and seriously impairing disorder. Evidence suggests that
music therapy can decrease depression, though the music therapy that is offered is often not …