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Psychobiology of suicidal behavior

Title: Psychobiology of suicidal behavior / edited by J. John Mann and Michael Stanley.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : New York Academy of Sciences, 1986.

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ix, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 487

Uniform Title

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 487.

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Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Note

Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 18-20, 1985, in New York, N.Y., and sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and the National Institute of Mental Health.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

pt. I, Epidemiology, ethical, assessment, and descriptive studies of suicide and suicidal behavior: -- Methodological strategies in suicide -- Suicidal people: one population or two? -- Statistical approaches to suicidal risk factor analysis -- Ethical considerations in biological research on suicide -- Conceptualizing a serotonin trait: a behavioral dimension of constraint.
pt. II, Risk factors and psychosocial correlates of suicide: -- Early families influences on suicidal behavior -- Psychosocial factors and suicidal behavior: life events, early loss, and personality -- Hopelessness as a predictor of eventual suicide -- Genetics of suicide -- Prospective studies of suicide and mortality in psychiatric patients.
pt. III, Postmortem neurochemical studies of suicide and depression: -- Postmortem monoamine receptor and enzyme studies in suicide -- Serotonin and serotonergic receptors in suicide -- Postmortem neurochemical studies in depression -- Muscarinic receptor density in skin fibroblasts and autopsied brain tissue in affective disorder -- The serotonin hypothesis of (auto) aggression: critical appraisal of the evidence.
pt. IV, Suicide attempts and psychobiological studies in vivo: -- Serotonergic function and suicidal behavior in personality disorders -- Cerebrospinal fluid correlates of suicide attempts and aggression -- Suicide and aggression in schizophrenia: neurobiologic correlates -- Cerebrospinal fluid studies of bipolar patients with and without a history of suicide attempts -- Indices of serotonin and glucose metabolism in violent offenders, arsonists, and alcoholics -- Aminergic studies and cerebrospinal fluid cations in suicide -- Studies of amine metabolites in depressed patients: relationship to suicidal behavior -- Cerebrospinal fluid studies in suicide: an overview.
pt. V, Neuroendocrine and platelet studies and suicidal behavioral: -- Neuroendocrine studies in depression: relationship to suicidal behavior -- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and suicide -- Platelet markers of suicidality.
pt. VI, Suicidal behavior in major psychiatric syndromes: descriptive and management issues: -- Personality and suicide -- Suicide in schizophrenia -- Suicide and bipolar disorders -- Suicide and alcoholism -- Generalizable treatment strategies for suicidal behavior.
pt. VII, Current formulations and future directions: -- Suicide prevention: Current efficacy and future promise -- Suicide, aggression, and depression: a theoretical framework for future research.

ISBN

0897663691
9780897663694
0897663705
9780897663700

LCCN

87001640

OCLC

ocm15197565
15197565
SCSB-1427603

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Princeton University Library