Citation

Turecki G. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 31.

Affiliation

McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, H4H 1R3 Montreal, Canada. (gustavo.turecki@mcgill.ca)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16963882

Abstract

Suicide is an important public health problem that ranks among the top causes of deaths in most Western countries. Over the last years it has been increasingly recognized that people who attempt or commit suicide have a certain individual predisposition, part of which is related to biological factors, and possibly mediated by personality traits, particularly impulsive-aggressive behaviors. Significant attention has been paid to the role of the serotonergic system as a possible molecular pathway of suicide risk. More recently, the availability of microarray technology has allowed the investigation of multiple brain molecular systems in parallel. Several of such studies have been conducted aiming at the identification of new molecular factors that, in addition to serotonin, may contribute to suicide risk. Our group has been part of this effort. This presentation will focus on our recent brain gene expression results and their follow up studies.

Language: en