Translating Interventional Neuroscience to Suicide – It’s About Time

Despite significant advances in psychiatric and psychological treatment over the last 30 years, suicide deaths have increased. Unfortunately, neuroscience insights have yielded few translational interventions that specifically target suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In our view, this is attributable to two factors. The first is our limited integration of neurocircuitry models with contemporary suicide theory. The second challenge is inherent to the variable nature of suicide risk over time. Few interventional neuroscience studies evaluate how temporal fluctuations in risk impact treatment, despite evidence that temporality is a key component distinguishing suicide phenotypes.
Source: Biological Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research