Inflammation in the body causes physical pain each day for untold millions of people, and in that respect it is a well-known and well-understood medical problem. Much less well understood is the role…
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Among young people under age 18 who are diagnosed with disorders on the bipolar spectrum (BD), as many as one in two attempts suicide. Of all psychiatric diagnoses in this age group, BD is associated…
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Women and men are known to have different vulnerabilities to psychiatric and other illnesses. There are a variety of reasons, including biological differences between the sexes and a vast number of…
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Newly reported analysis of the results of three small clinical trials indicates that the gas nitrous oxide (N₂O) may have rapid-acting anti-suicidal effects.
Nitrous oxide is often called laughing…
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Analysis of Gene-Expression Profiles in Suicide Implicates 5 Genes and Several Biological Mechanisms
Two of the most important goals in suicide research are developing methods of predicting individual risk and identifying measures that might contribute to prevention.
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