Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Epidemiology of suicide
  • Issues in measurement of suicide risk factors in adults
  • Issues in measurement of risk factors in youth
  • Social and cultural factors in suicide risk
  • Neurobiology of teenage and adult suicide: possible biological markers for identification of suicidal patients
  • Strategies to identify genes for complex diseases
  • Neurobiological consequences of childhood abuse and neglect
  • Association of early physical or sexual abuse with suicide attempts in bipolar illness
  • Psychologic factors in suicide.