Abstract
Rates of suicidal behaviour decrease in many countries in parallel with the development of prevention strategies, but many other countries, including the USA and the UK, are confronted with increases in rates of fatal and nonfatal suicidal behaviours, in spite of preventive efforts. Major obstacles to the prevention of suicide include the difficulty to assess suicide risk and the absence of clear targets for its treatment. Recent neurobiological studies of suicidal behaviour address these obstacles and thus yield promising results for suicide risk assessment and prevention.
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van Heeringen, K. (2022). Neurobiological Approach to the Study of Suicide. In: Pompili, M. (eds) Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42003-1_2
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