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Despite government warnings about an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions while taking antiepileptic drugs, these medications do not appear to be associated with increased risk of suicide attempts in individuals with bipolar disorder, and may have a possible protective effect, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news179430797.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:40:04 EST news179430797 Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk for suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments ended, according to a study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news175527865.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:44:49 EST news175527865 A new study in China has found that people with higher levels of pesticide exposure are more likely to have suicidal thoughts. The study was carried out by Dr Robert Stewart from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London together with scientists from Tongde Hospital Zhejiang Province. http://www.physorg.com/news175425605.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:30:02 EST news175425605 Nortriptyline has been found to cause a ten-fold increase in suicidal thoughts in men when compared to its competitor escitalopram. These findings are published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news174768043.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:10:01 EST news174768043 There is no strong evidence that the popular smoking cessation drug varenicline increases the risk of self harm or depression compared to other cessation products, according to new research published on BMJ.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news173644793.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:40:01 EST news173644793 Drug treatment options for depression can take weeks for the beneficial effects to emerge, which is clearly inadequate for those at immediate risk of suicide. However, intravenous (IV) ketamine, a drug previously used as an anesthetic, has shown rapid antidepressant effects in early trials. http://www.physorg.com/news171796581.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:30:01 EST news171796581 Although depression is the mental disorder that most people associate with suicidal behavior, a new study reveals that a wide range of mental disorders increase the odds of thinking about suicide and making suicide attempts. Whereas depression is indeed one of the strongest predictors of suicidal thoughts across many different countries, it is disorders characterized by anxiety and poor impulse-control that best predict which people act on such thoughts -- especially in developing countries, says a multi-country study published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news169188082.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:42:31 EST news169188082 Researchers from Rhode Island Hospital's department of psychiatry propose that the definition for major depressive disorder (MDD) should be shortened to include only the mood and cognitive symptoms that have been part of the definition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) for the past 35 years. Their recommendation would exclude those symptoms that are currently part of the definition that may be associated with medical illness rather than depression. The proposal is based on a study that appears in the July 23 online first edition of the journal Psychological Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news167564596.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:07 EST news167564596 A University of Iowa study found that when a friend of a friend attempts suicide, at-risk teens are more likely to seriously consider doing so. But at-risk teens are less likely to be suicidal if they hold summer jobs. http://www.physorg.com/news157211151.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:46:16 EST news157211151 Youth in their late teens who live in poor neighbourhoods are four times more likely to attempt suicide than peers who live in more affluent neighbourhoods, according to a new study from Canada's Université de Montréal and Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, as well as Tufts University in the U.S. The researchers also found youth from poor neighbourhoods are twice as likely to report suicidal thoughts. http://www.physorg.com/news144062242.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:17:22 EST news144062242 More than half of 26,000 students across 70 colleges and universities who completed a survey on suicidal experiences reported having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives. Furthermore, 15 percent of students surveyed reported having seriously considered attempting suicide and more than 5 percent reported making a suicide attempt at least once in their lifetime. http://www.physorg.com/news138198837.html Medicine & Health Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:33:57 EST news138198837