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Biomarkers of Suicide Attempt Behavior: Towards a Biological Model of Risk.
Current psychiatry reports - 1 Jun 2017
Sudol Katherin, Mann J John
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The rising suicide rate in the USA will not be reversed without improved risk assessment and prevention practices. To date, the best method for clinicians to assess a patient's risk for suicide is screening for past suicide attempts in the patient and their family. However, neuroimaging, genomic, and biochemical studies have generated a body of findings that allow description of an initial...
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