by Christopher Gardner, Yale University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Adults over age 65 who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia are more than twice as likely to die from suicide compared to older adults who do not suffer from dementia, according to a new study led by a Yale Department of Psychiatry researcher....
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER Adults with schizophrenia have an elevated risk of dying from suicide. Yet there’s only limited understanding of when and why people with schizophrenia die of suicide –in part because research studies have looked at relatively small groups of patients. Now a new study from Columbia that looked at a large...
by Doug Dollemore, University of Utah Health Sciences Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every 11 minutes, an American dies by suicide. That’s 132 people a day or more than 48,000 annually. For those left behind, the haunting question is why. One emerging factor is family history. Perhaps the most famous example is Ernest Hemingway’s family. In addition to...
