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Brain Imaging Might Help Identify Individuals at Risk of Suicide

It might eventually be possible to use brain imaging to help identify individuals at risk of suicide, as a result of a new finding reported in Biological Psychiatry by Jeffrey Miller, M.D., an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, and colleagues. Using PET brain imaging, they found that depressed suicide attempters had significantly lower binding of the serotonin transporter in the midbrain region than did depressed individuals who did not attempt suicide and control subjects who did not have a psychiatric disorder.

This finding is "important," Fabrice Jollant, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - Wednesday, 27 March

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