Depressed inpatients, electrodermal reactivity, and suicide - a study about psychophysiology of suicidal behavior
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Archives of Suicide Research
- Vol. 5 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13811119908258311
Abstract
This study deals with the psychophysiological (electrodermal reactivity in a habituation experiment, habituation score) basis of suicidal behaviour. It shows habituation data of 30 suicides with violent method compared to age- and sex-matched control groups with different suicidal expressions, on a large database of a total sample of 504 depressed inpatients. The major finding of a significantly reduced electrodermal reactivity (habituation score) in suicidal action versus suicidal thinking confirms early results but in a comprehensive large sample. Also, it confirms our clinical hypothesis of a biological basis of suicidal action, specially in suicidal acts with violent methods.Keywords
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