Understanding Suicide

Part I. Diagnostic and Clinical issues

1. Nomenclature and Definition of Suicidal Behavior
Lucas Giner, Julio A. Guija, Christopher W. Root, Enrique Baca-Garcia

2. A Modern Semiology of Suicidal Behavior
Jorge Lopez-Castroman, Emilie Olié, Philippe Courtet

3. Asking about Suicide as Suicide Prevention: The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
Kseniya Yershova, Adam Lesser, Katherine Logan, Kelly Posner

4. Temperament in Suicidal Behaviour
Zoltan Rihmer, Xenia Gonda

5. The Addiction to Suicidal Behavior
Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla

6. Suicidal Crisis in the Digital Age
L. Jehel, R. Arnal, D. Carmelo, N. Howard

Part II. Biomarkers of Suicide (Advances in Biology of Suicide)

7. Biomarkers of Suicide: Predicting the Predictable?
Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla, Maria A. Oquendo

8. Genetics and Suicide
Eugene Lin, Shih-Jen Tsai

9. Epigenetics
Gustavo Turecki

10. Neuroinflammation in Suicide
Déborah Ducasse, Chloé Girod, Philippe Courtet

11. A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Suicidal Behavior
Anthony J. Gifuni, Fabrice Jollant

12. Psychological and Social Pain
E. Olié

13. Biochemical Markers
Bun-Hee Lee, Yong-Ku Kim

14. Translational Research in Suicide: Is It Possible to Study Suicide in Animal Models?
Stefano Comai, Gabriella Gobbi

Part III. Neo-Durkheimian View: From Society to Groups at Risk

15. Effect of Economic Crises on Suicide Rates
Marta Miret, Pilar López-García

16. Key Features of Suicidal Behavior in Mental Disorders
Emilie Olié, David Travers, Jorge Lopez-Castroman

17. How to Deal with Personality in Suicidal Behavior?
Jorge Lopez-Castroman, Hilario Blasco-Fontecilla

18. How Japan Reduced Suicides: A Law That Changed Society – The Japanese Model
Yasuyuki Shimizu

19. The Challenge to Survive in Jail
Marco Sarchiapone, Marianna D’Aulerio, Miriam Iosue

20. Racism and Discrimination, Killers?
Mohammed Taleb, Aicha Dahdouh

21. Why It Is Important to Talk About Religion
Olfa Mandhouj, Philippe Huguelet

Part IV. Treatments of Suicidal Behaviour (and Related Traits)

22. Surveillance Is a Powerful Tool to Prevent Suicidal Acts
Guillaume Vaiva, Vincent Jardon, François Ducrocq, Pierre Grandgenèvre, Christophe Debien, Sofian Berrouiguet, Michel Maron, Philippe Courtet, Michel Walter

23. Preventing Suicidality Through Online Tools: The SUPREME Project
Vladimir Carli

24. Antidepressants and Suicide Risk: A Challenge
Maurizio Pompili, Gloria Giordano, Dorian A. Lamis

25. Lithium: The Key Antisuicide Agent
Frank Bellivier, Sebastien Guillaume

26. Antipsychotics
Celso Iglesias, Pilar A. Sáiz, Paz García-Portilla, Julio Bobes

27. Psychological Interventions in Suicide
Raffaella Calati

28. Advocacy Organisations
Károly Oriold

Part V. A Need for Personalized Suicidology

29. Childhood Maltreatment
Nader Perroud

30. Family Risk Factors for Suicidal Behavior: Opportunities for Early Identification and Intervention
David A. Brent

31. The Gender Matters
M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, Alfredo Gutierrez, Alison Welch

32. A Need for Personalised Suicidology: Pharmacoepidemiology
Marie Tournier

33. Pharmacogenetic Studies of Suicide: Potential Relevance of Main Polymorphic CYPs and ABCB1
Eva E. Peñas-Lledó, Aurea Delgado, Adrián LLerena

34. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Referral of Patients with Suicide Risk Upon Hospital Admission
Lucas Giner, Christopher W. Root, Philippe Courtet

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology