History of Attempted Suicide and Reckless Driving

Suicide and attempted suicide

Accurate prediction of suicide risk remains a challenge, in its prevention. Many people with psychiatric disorders do not manifest suicidal behaviour, suggesting the importance of diathesis, or susceptibility to suicide, in addition to associated disorders. At present there are no biomarkers to predict suicidal behaviour. The authors of this article have attempted to describe the neurobiology o...

Suicide and Attempted Suicide

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History of attempted suicide and the medical review of systems.

Previous studies indicate relationships between borderline personality disorder, characterized by chronic selfharm behaviour, and somatic preoccupation. Therefore, we hypothesized a relationship between a history of suicide attempts and multiple somatic symptoms in the context of a medical review of systems (ROS). Participants were male and female outpatients, aged 18 or older, seen in a reside...

Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide.

Attempted suicide.

This study describes the changing patterns of adult self-poisoning in East Cheshire between 1970 and 1975. Six hundred and ninety episodes were analysed. It was found that the percentage of acute medical admissions due to self-poisoning increased during the five years: it doubled for females and trebled for males. The average annual incidence of self-poisoning was one per 600 q# th$ population,...