Tag: suicide prevention
Lithium Suicide Prevention: A Brief Review and Reminder
by Simrat Kaur Sarai, MD; Hema Madhuri Mekala, MD; and Steven Lippmann, MD Drs. Sarai and Mekala are research scholars and Dr. Lippmann is Emeritus Professor for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts […]
Digital Suicide Prevention: Can Technology Become a Game-changer?
by Arshya Vahabzadeh, MD; Ned Sahin, PhD; and Amir Kalali, MD Dr. Vahabzadeh is Director of Digital Health, Brain Power, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Innovation Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sahin is Chief Science Officer at Brain Power and Associate […]
Editor’s Message: Special Edition of ICNS Covers Multiple Aspects of Assessment of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
Dear Colleagues: Every year, over 800,000 people commit suicide worldwide, with over 40,000 of these deaths occurring annually in the United States. There are many more who attempt it.[1,2] A United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report indicated that nearly 500,000 people in the United States visit a hospital annually for injuries […]
