Neurobiological aspects of suicide and suicide attempts in bipolar disorder
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Neurobiological Aspects of Suicide and Suicide Attempts in Bipolar Disorder.
Suicide and bipolar disorder (BD) are challenging, complex, and intertwined areas of study in contemporary psychiatry. Indeed, BD is associated with the highest lifetime risk for suicide attempt and completion of all the psychiatric conditions. Given that several clinical risk factors for both suicide and BD have been well noted in the literature, exploring the neurobiological aspects of suicid...
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عنوان ژورنال: Translational Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2081-6936,2081-3856
DOI: 10.2478/s13380-013-0120-7