TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The psychobiology of the suicidal mind
JO  - Psychiatria Danubina
A1  - van Heeringen, Cornelis Kees
SP  - 31
EP  - 31
VL  - 18
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - The last decades bore witness to an explosion of research regarding the psychological and biological nature of individual differences in human behaviour. In addition, there is increasing insight in specific biological pathways that contribute to complex cognitive and emotional characteristics and in the ways such differences might confer vulnerability to psychiatric disorder. A very limited proportion of this research using sophisticated techniques of functional brain imaging, neuropsychology and genetics has addressed suicidal behaviour. It is now becoming clear where and how decisions about the self are made relying on autobiographical memory, the cognitive regulation of emotion, affective responses to environmental stimuli including anguish and mental pain, and the perception of the future. Individual variations in the reactivity of different parts of the prefrontal cortex thus play a key role in shaping the cognitions and emotions, and thus the mind that determines human behaviour including suicide and self harm.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0353-5053
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -