Background Completed suicide is a major cause of death in bipolar disorder (BD) patients.
Objective The aim of this paper is to provide an overall review of the existing literature of …

Depression is a common cause of mortality and morbidity, but the biological bases of the
deficits in emotional and cognitive processing remain incompletely understood. Current …

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has a primary role in neuronal development,
differentiation and plasticity in both the develo** and adult brain. A single-nucleotide …

Neurotrophins have been implicated in the pathophysiology of many neuropsychiatric
diseases. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is the most abundant and widely …

Chronic restraint stress leads to increases in brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)
mRNA and protein in some regions of the brain, eg the basal lateral amygdala (BLA) but …

Introduction Suicide is a major health problem, and depression is a major psychiatric cause
of suicide. Suicide is influenced by the multifactorial interaction of many risk factors …

Suicidal behaviors (SBs), which range from suicidal ideation to suicide attempts and
completed suicide, represent a fatal dimension of mental ill-health. The involvement of …

Increasing evidence supports the involvement of both heritable and environmental risk
factors in major depression (MD) and suicidal behavior (SB). Studies investigating gene …

Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Prior research has focused primarily on
sociodemographic and psychiatric risk factors with little improvement in the prediction or …

Epidemiological studies have recognized a genetic diathesis for suicidal behavior, which is
independent of other psychiatric disorders. Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) on …