AAS: American Association of Suicidology
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AAS: CAMS protects against suicidality during, after hospitalization
Key clinical point: CAMS therapy for suicidal inpatients markedly improves suicidal ideation and cognition at discharge. Major finding: Mean...
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AAS: New approach underway to ID teens at high suicide risk
A federally funded effort to develop a screening tool designed to prevent youth suicide is underway.
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AAS: Acute suicidal affective disturbance proposed as new diagnosis
Acute suicidal affective disturbance is a proposed diagnostic entity aimed at capturing suicides that cannot be attributable to depression,...
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AAS: The ‘sad truth’ about suicide risk assessment scales
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AAS: Experts say suicide research needs a reboot
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AAS: Suicidal ideation common, underrecognized in prisoners
Key clinical point: 33% of adult male state prison inmates showed some degree of suicidal ideation upon structured testing.
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AAS: Brief therapy reduces repeat self-harm
Key clinical point: Patients who underwent a course of brief psychological therapy after presenting to a hospital with self-harm were 20% less...
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VIDEO: Shedding stigma for advocacy, suicide attempt survivors find a voice
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Automated screening system might detect suicidality after trauma
Key clinical point: ‘Suicidality is endemic within the trauma population, and a lot of it is under the radar.’Major finding: Victims of assault...
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Air pollution linked to suicide risk
Major finding: A 20% increase in suicide risk was found when levels of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide are at their highest and a 5% increase when...
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Don’t discount suicide attempts in borderline patients
Major finding: Following suicide attempts, patients with borderline personality features scored a mean of 14.51 points and nonborderline patients...
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VIDEO: Treat insomnia in depressed, even suicidal people
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Gene Markers Linked With Suicidality in Schizophrenia
Major Finding: A tyrosine hydroxylase polymorphism and a dopamine beta-hydroxylase polymorphism were each linked with a roughly fourfold increased...