Posted by SLS on November 20, 2004, at 22:08:38
In reply to possible to be suicidal without being depressed ??, posted by linkadge on November 20, 2004, at 20:29:06
From: The Neurobiology of Suicidal Behavior
By: J.J. Mannhttp://www.afsp.org/research/articles/mann.html
"In the 1960s studies exploring the biological basis of depression found that the brain of patients who died by suicide contained abnormally low levels of the chemical transmitter serotonin and its major breakdown product, the metabolite 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA). In only half of these suicides was the patient suffering from depression; the others carried diagnoses of schizophrenia, alcoholism, personality disorders, and situational reactions."
- Scott
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