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Building a neurocognitive profile of suicidal risk in severe mental disorders
Background Research on the influence of neurocognitive factors on suicide risk, regardless of the diagnosis, is inconsistent. Recently, suicide risk studies propose applying a trans-diagnostic framework in line with the launch of the Research Domain Criteria Cognitive Systems model. In the present study, we highlight the extent of cognitive impairment using a standardized battery in a psychiatric sample stratified for different degrees of suicidal risk. We also differentiate in our sample various neurocognitive profiles associated with different levels of risk. Materials and methods We divided a sample of 106 subjects into three groups stratified by suicide risk level: Suicide Attempt (SA), Suicidal Ideation (SI), Patient Controls (PC) and Healthy Controls (HC). We conducted a multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) for each cognitive domain measured through the standardized battery MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB). Results We found that the group of patients performed worse than the group of healthy controls on most domains; social cognition was impaired in the suicide risk groups compared both to HC and PC. Patients in the SA group performed worse than those in the SI group. Conclusion Social cognition impairment may play a crucial role in suicidality among individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness as it is involved in both SI and SA; noteworthy, it is more compromised in the SA group fitting as a marker of risk severity
Positive symptoms and social cognition impairment affect severity of suicidal ideation in schizophrenia
The current article provides a comprehensive review of the literature on lifestyle
interventions, mental health, and suicide risk in the general population and in patients
with psychiatric disorders. For this purpose, we investigated lifestyle behaviors and
lifestyle interventions in three different age groups: adolescents, young adults, and the
elderly. Several lifestyle behaviors including cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and sedentary
lifestyle are associated with suicide risk in all age groups. In adolescents, growing
attention has emerged on the association between suicide risk and internet addiction,
cyberbullying and scholastic and family difficulties