Dissecting the suicide phenotype: the role of impulsive-aggressive behaviours.

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Suicide ranks among the main causes of death in most Western countries and is, thus, an important public health problem. Over the last few years, it has been increasingly recognized that people who attempt or commit suicide have a certain individual predisposition, partly resulting from certain personality traits, in particular, impulsive-aggressive behaviors. The evidence suggests that impulsive-aggressive...

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