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People who have suicidal ideations do not always seek psychiatric help or discuss these thoughts with friends or loved ones. Therefore, the development of a simple blood test to predict when an individual has a higher risk for self-harm has been a long-term goal of the medical community. Now, a team of researchers at Indiana University in Indianapolis has found a handful of molecular indicators that can increase the accuracy of predictions of future suicide-related hospitalizations. The team reported its findings today (August 20) in Molecular Psychiatry.
The team used a four-part approach to search for biomarkers related to suicidal behaviors. They first identified nine men with bipolar disorder who went from having no suicidal thoughts to later scoring high on a test for suicide ...
