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Possible Genetic Causes of Borderline Personality Disorder Identified
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 weeks 1 day (www.sciencedaily.com)
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is more common than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and is estimated to affect two percent of the population. In a new study, a University of Missouri researcher and Dutch team of research collaborators found that genetic material on chromosome nine was linked to BPD features, a disorder characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image and behavior, and can lead to suicidal behavior, substance abuse and failed relationships. 
Physicians practicing assisted suicide are asked to better screen patients for depression
jerry submitted, created time 2 months 4 weeks (www.reuters.com)
This article is particularly concerned with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which requires physicians who suspect that a patient requesting help in ending his or her live might be suffering from clinical depression to have said patient evaluated by a mental health professional. However, the proportion of such patients who actually are evaluated has dropped and continues to drop.
Last year, forty-six patients died by physician-assisted suicide in Oregon. None of them were evaluated to see if depression had affected their judgment.
FDA Approves First Drug for Treatment of Chorea in Huntington’s Disease
kavin submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.fda.gov)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenazine (tetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea in people with Huntington’s disease. Chorea is the jerky, involuntary movement that occurs in people with this disease.
Xenazine is a new drug and is the first treatment of any kind approved in the United States for any symptom of Huntington’s disease. Currently there are no other drugs that are FDA-approved to treat chorea.
Serious side effects reported with use of Xenazine include depression and suicidal thoughts and actions
Death renews biosecurity debate
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 2 days (www.nature.com)
The suicide of a biodefence researcher who was being investigated in connection with the 2001 anthrax attacks has raised questions about the U.S. government’s regulation of research on dangerous pathogens—even as Congress considers a bill to improve oversight.
Suicidal actions linked with epilepsy drugs
kavin submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (today.reuters.co.uk)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Epilepsy drugs are associated with a higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior, U.S. drug reviewers said in an analysis that was released on Wednesday and mirrored earlier findings.
"The effect appears consistent among the group of 11 drugs" that were reviewed, according to a summary from statistical reviewers at the Food and Drug Administration. There were about two more cases per every 1,000 patients given the drugs instead of a placebo, the FDA staff said in a review dated May 23
Higher Suicide Risk for Smart Doctors
jerry submitted, created time 7 months 4 weeks (www.time.com)
There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year — a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.
Drug for smokers linked to suicide
jerry submitted, created time 7 months 4 weeks (www.time.com)
Soem doctors have been recommending Chantix to their patients to help them quit smoking. However, Chantix has recently been linked with depression and suicidal behavior.
"Suicide victims" brains bear chemical scars of child abuse
kavin submitted, created time 8 months 1 day (www.sciencenews.org)
The study is the first to implicate faulty protein production with child abuse and suicide. The researchers find that child abuse can leave lasting scars on its victims, both physical and psychological. It may also leave chemical marks in the brains of its victims who will later kill themselves. In the brains of suicide victims, early abuse marks genes that encode ribosomal RNA, key gears in the cellular machinery that makes proteins.
Deliberate self-harm can signal suicide risk
Eric wu submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.reuters.com)
The characteristics of young patients who commit acts of deliberate self-harm vary widely, but the risk of suicide is very high in this population, UK investigators report.
Expanding the Black Box — Depression, Antidepressants, and the Risk of Suicide
broadcast submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (content.nejm.org)
"On May 2, 2007, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered that all antidepressant medications carry an expanded black-box warning incorporating information about an increased risk of suicidal symptoms in young adults 18 to 24 years of age. Since October 2004, antidepressants have been required to have a black-box warning indicating that they are associated with an increased risk of suicidal thinking, feeling, and behavior in children and adolescents."
Kevorkian: freed, unrepentant and flashy as ever
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nytimes.com)
As part of the deal that allowed his parole, Dr. Jack Kevorkian promised to never again counsel a patient on how to commit suicide. However, he remains a staunch and strident advocate of physician-assisted suicide -- so much so that many other pro-assist groups attempt to distance themselves from his theatrics.
FDA Seeks Antidepressant Suicide Warning
cappuccion submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.examiner.com)
Young adults face an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior when they first begin taking antidepressants and should be warned about the danger, federal health officials said Wednesday.
julie submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)
"Our knowledge about the neurobiology of suicide is limited. It has been proposed that suicidal behavior generally requires biological abnormalities concomitant with the personality trait of impulsivity/aggression, besides an acute psychiatric illness or psychosocial stressor."
Patterns of gene expression in the limbic system of suicides with and without major depression
addict submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)
The limbic system has consistently been associated with the control of emotions and with mood disorders. The goal of this study was to identify new molecular targets associated with suicide and with major depression using oligonucleotide microarrays in the limbic system (amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulate gryus (BA24) and posterior cingulate gyrus (BA29)). A total of 39 subjects were included in this study. They were all male subjects and comprised 26 suicides (depressed suicides=18, non depressed suicides=8) and 13 matched controls
Violent behavior associated with hypocholesterolemia due to a novel APOB gene mutation
medal submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)
"A 26-year-old male, the index patient, presented with persecutory delusions and suicidal behavior. He had 10 paternal male relatives in two prior generations. Five of them died by violent suicide and one, of the five, also committed a double homicide."
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