Citation

Albanese BJ, Hajcak G. Biol. Psychiatry Cogn. Neurosci. Neuroimaging 2021; 6(1): 8-9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.11.002

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Approximately 800,000 people die by suicide each year, making it the second leading cause of death among people 15 to 29 years of age (1). For every death by suicide there are an estimated 20 additional people who survive a suicide attempt (SA), often resulting in lasting distress and disability for survivors and their loved ones (1). These figures are a sobering, albeit well-worn, reminder of the imminent need to bolster suicide prevention efforts with innovative methods for studying suicidal ideation and the transition from thinking about suicide to making a SA. Event-related potentials (ERPs), a way of measuring neural activity with high temporal resolution, offer a promising avenue for understanding between- and within-subject risk factors for suicide by integrating neurobehavioral mechanisms with existing psychological perspectives...

Language: en