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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Danuta WassermanSummaryAffiliation: Karolinska Institutet Country: Sweden Publications
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Trends in adolescent suicide mortality in the WHO European RegionEllenor Mittendorfer Rutz
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13:321-31. 2004..Increases in female adolescent suicide rates were marginally affected by changes in classification practices and were accompanied primarily by declining suicide rates in females of 20 years and over...
Life time suicidal thoughts in an urban community in Hanoi, VietnamHuong Tran Thi Thanh
Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
BMC Public Health 6:76. 2006..Suicidal thought is a risk factor and a stage in the suicidal process from planning to attempting and dying by suicide. To date, studies on suicidal thought in the general population, especially in Asian communities, have been limited...- [Suicide prevention among young people--a neglected field]Danuta Wasserman
, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Lakartidningen 99:2740-1. 2002 - Suicide attempt and basic mechanisms in neural conduction: relationships to the SCN8A and VAMP4 genesD Wasserman
The National and the Stockholm County Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP, Karolinska Institute, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 133:116-9. 2005..019) genes, but failed to confirm the data for the RABAC1 gene. Our results indicate that genetic variation in the SCN8A and VAMP4 genes may contribute to risk for suicide attempt, possibly through alterations in neural conduction... - [Increased suicide rate among young people in Sweden. A national preventive program is ready, parliamentary resolution is delayed]Danuta Wasserman
Karolinska Institutet
Lakartidningen 101:4078-9. 2004 - Nature and nurture in suicidal behavior, the role of genetics: some novel findings concerning personality traits and neural conductionDanuta Wasserman
Karolinska Institutet, The National and the Stockholm County Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Box 230, S 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Physiol Behav 92:245-9. 2007..Our future studies aim at identifying and resolving complex patterns and mechanisms of neurobiological gene-environment interactions, which may contribute to suicide... - [The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on suicide treatment and prevention]Danuta Wasserman
The National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Neuropsychopharmacol Hung 14:113-36. 2012..Continuous training including discussions about ethical and legal issues is necessary for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals... 
Pregnancies in high psychosocial risk groups: research findings and implications for early interventionEllenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Granits väg 4, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
Psychiatr Clin North Am 31:205-12. 2008..Effective collaboration among the sectors within health care and social services is crucial for early detection and adequate intervention...
Suicide among Russians in Estonia: database study before and after independenceAiri Varnik
Estonian Swedish Institute of Suicidology, Hariduse 6, Tallinn 10119, Estonia
BMJ 330:176-7. 2005- Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factorsTony Durkee
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Addiction 107:2210-22. 2012..To investigate the prevalence of pathological internet use (PIU) and maladaptive internet use (MIU) among adolescents in 11 European countries in relation to demographic, social factors and internet accessibility... - Association of the serotonin transporter promotor polymorphism with suicide attempters with a high medical damageDanuta Wasserman
The National and the Stockholm County Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health, Dep of the Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 17:230-3. 2007..054, df=1, p=0.0026). The results suggest that the S-allele may predispose for suicidal behavior characterized by high determination... - The roles of knowledge and supervision in work with suicidal patientsInga-Lill Ramberg
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health, Stockholm, Sweden
Nord J Psychiatry 57:365-71. 2003..Basic and specific training in suicidology is needed and cannot be replaced solely by supervision, since psychiatric staff often have to deal with suicidal patients in emergency situations and must be able to rely on their own skills... - Maintaining confidentiality in prospective studies: anonymous repeated measurements via email (ARME) procedureVladimir Carli
National Prevention of Suicide and Mental Ill Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Med Ethics 38:127-9. 2012..Strengths and limitations of the approach are discussed... - The state of psychiatry in SwedenGergo Hadlaczky
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental lll Health NASP, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int Rev Psychiatry 24:356-62. 2012..Results from these analyses can be used for increasing quality of treatment... - Suicidal process, suicidal communication and psychosocial situation of young suicide attempters in a rural Vietnamese communityDanuta Wasserman
Swedish National and Stockholm County Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP at the Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, P O Box 230, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
World Psychiatry 7:47-53. 2008.... - Saving and empowering young lives in Europe (SEYLE): a randomized controlled trialDanuta Wasserman
National Swedish Prevention of Mental Ill Health and Suicide NASP, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Public Health 10:192. 2010.... - Attempted suicide among immigrants in European countries: an international perspectiveCendrine Bursztein Lipsicas
National Prevention of Suicide and Mental Ill Health NASP at Karolinska Institute and Stockholm County Council s Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, WHO Lead Collaborating Centre of Mental Health Problems and Suicide across Europe, Stockholm, Sweden
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:241-51. 2012..This study compares the frequencies of attempted suicide among immigrants and their hosts, between different immigrant groups, and between immigrants and their countries of origin... - The representation of suicide on the Internet: implications for cliniciansMichael Westerlund
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Med Internet Res 14:e122. 2012..A great deal of ambivalence is discernible as to whether online communication about suicide primarily should be seen as an opportunity or a serious threat... - The response inventory for stressful life events (RISLE) I. refinement of the 100-item versionEmilio Ovuga
The National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine and The Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Box 230 SE, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Afr Health Sci 5:137-44. 2005..The Response Inventory for Stressful Life Events (RISLE) may be an appropriate tool, but requires validation... - Suicide-preventive activities in psychiatric care: evaluation of an educational programme in suicide preventionInga Lill Ramberg
Swedish National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP at the Swedish National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Nord J Psychiatry 58:389-94. 2004..There is a need to strengthen the course participants' formal roles as implementers and encourage the clinical management in their continuous implementation of suicide-preventive activities... - Familial clustering of suicidal behaviour and psychopathology in young suicide attempters. A register-based nested case control studyEllenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Prevention of Mental Ill Health NASP, Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 43:28-36. 2008..Most of these studies were predominantly carried out in clinical treatment settings and lacked statistical power to assess the independent and modifying influences of own and familial psychopathology and suicidal behaviour... - The association between life events and suicide intent in self-poisoners with and without a history of deliberate self-harm: a preliminary studyCatherine Crane
Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:367-78. 2007..The results provide preliminary evidence to suggest the presence of a suicidal process in women, in which the impact of negative life events on suicide intent diminishes across episodes... - Why people engage in parasuicide: a cross-cultural study of intentionsHeidi Hjelmeland
Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Suicide Life Threat Behav 32:380-93. 2002..The findings from this study are likely to be generalizable to other settings and have implications for clinical practice... - Do alcohol restrictions reduce suicide mortality?Airi Varnik
Estonian Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute, Centre for Behavioural and Health Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
Addiction 102:251-6. 2007..Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at the time of suicide was examined in relation to the marked falls in suicide rates and per capita alcohol consumption in Estonia during the major Soviet anti-alcohol campaign from 1 June 1985... - Suicide attempts, plans, and ideation in culturally diverse sites: the WHO SUPRE-MISS community surveyJose M Bertolote
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Psychol Med 35:1457-65. 2005.... - The role of alcohol in suicide: a case-control psychological autopsy studyKairi Kolves
Estonian Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute, Estonian Centre of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Tallinn, EstoniaTartu University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Psychol Med 36:923-30. 2006..The purpose of the study was to estimate the proportion of alcohol abuse and dependence (AAD) among suicides and controls, and to compare the incidence of AAD documented by clinicians with diagnoses derived from a research protocol... - Characteristics of attempted suicides seen in emergency-care settings of general hospitals in eight low- and middle-income countriesAlexandra Fleischmann
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Psychol Med 35:1467-74. 2005..The care of patients who attempt suicide needs to include routine psychiatric and psychosocial assessment and systematic referral to professional services after discharge... - Suicide and mental disorders: do we know enough?Jose Manoel Bertolote
Br J Psychiatry 183:382-3. 2003 - Psychiatric diagnoses and suicide: revisiting the evidenceJose Manoel Bertolote
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Crisis 25:147-55. 2004..The key role of prevention and treatment of mental disorders in the prevention of suicide is widely acknowledged. Which specific disorders need to be targeted remains to be conclusively demonstrated... - Attempted suicide in Hanoi, VietnamHuong Tran Thi Thanh
Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 40:64-71. 2005..Skills in resolving family and other conflicts can be taught in schools according to WHO's suicide-prevention resources for teachers... - The prevalence of depression in two districts of UgandaEmilio Ovuga
Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 40:439-45. 2005..4%. Significantly higher rates were found in women and in Adjumani District. CONCLUSION: Depression is common in Uganda and particularly in the more troubled and less socially cohesive district of Adjumani... - [Suicide tips on the Internet. Self-regulation and filtration necessary to protect vulnerable individuals]Michael Westerlund
Medier och kommunikation, Stockholms universitet
Lakartidningen 105:2758-9. 2008 - Suicide in Thailand, 1977 to 2002Prakarn Thomyangkoon
Rajavithi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Arch Suicide Res 9:361-8. 2005..The highest suicide rate was in young males, ages 25-29 and the trend shows an increase. Despite the increasing incidence, there has been little study to date; however, HIV/AIDS has been identified as a major risk factor... - The response inventory for stressful life events (RISLE) II: validation of the 36-item versionEmilio Ovuga
The National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine and The Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Box 230 SE, 17177 Stockholm Sweden
Afr Health Sci 5:145-51. 2005..A 36-item version of the Response Inventory for Stressful Life Events (RISLE) was derived from the longer 100 item version. The 36-item version may be more appropriate for use in larger population sample... - Internet comments on media reporting of two adolescents' collective suicide attemptMerike Sisask
Estonian Swedish Suicidology Institute at the Estonian Center of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
Arch Suicide Res 9:87-98. 2005..The influence of suicide reporting on the Internet on attitude formation in the general population should not be underestimated... - Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic reviewJ John Mann
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Division of Neuroscience, New York, NY 10032, USA
JAMA 294:2064-74. 2005..Some developed nations have implemented national suicide prevention plans. Although these plans generally propose multiple interventions, their effectiveness is rarely evaluated...