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| Y ConwellSummaryAffiliation: University of Rochester Country: USA Publications
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Relationships of age and axis I diagnoses in victims of completed suicide: a psychological autopsy studyY Conwell
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY, USA
Am J Psychiatry 153:1001-8. 1996..Psychiatric illness is a potent risk factor for suicide, rates of which differ markedly with age. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the psychiatric diagnoses of suicide victims vary predictably with age...- Cerebrovascular risk factors and depression in older primary care patients: testing a vascular brain disease model of depressionJ M Lyness
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 7:252-8. 1999..Future work should include longitudinal study with larger sample sizes... - Cerebrovascular risk factors and 1-year depression outcome in older primary care patientsJ M Lyness
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Psychiatry 157:1499-501. 2000.... - Cerebrovascular risk factors and later-life major depression. Testing a small-vessel brain disease modelJ M Lyness
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 6:5-13. 1998..These data did not support the notion that a linear model of small-vessel disease might apply to the great majority of older inpatients with major depression... - Age-related patterns of factors associated with completed suicide in men with alcohol dependenceK R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, N Y 14642, USA
Am J Addict 8:312-8. 1999..Results suggest that factors associated with suicide may cluster in male alcoholics of differing ages, with implications for risk recognition and intervention... - Age differences in behaviors leading to completed suicideY Conwell
University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 6:122-6. 1998..Primary prevention should be the focus of efforts to decrease suicide rates in late life... - Profile of discrete emotions in affective disorders in older primary care patientsL Seidlitz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA
Gerontologist 41:643-51. 2001..This research examined whether the frequencies of specific emotions are associated with major and minor depression in older primary care patients... - Ruminative thinking in older inpatients with major depressionJ M Lyness
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
J Affect Disord 46:273-7. 1997..Further investigations in inpatients and other populations examining its relationships to other phenomenology, to course and outcome, and to putative underlying mechanisms of depression are warranted... - Screening for depression in elderly primary care patients. A comparison of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale and the Geriatric Depression ScaleJ M Lyness
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY, USA
Arch Intern Med 157:449-54. 1997..However, available findings from younger patients may not generalize to older persons, and existing studies of screening instruments in older patient samples have suffered substantial methodological limitations... - Psychological vulnerability to completed suicide: a review of empirical studiesK R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 31:367-85. 2001..Current knowledge of psychological vulnerability to completed suicide could inform social and neurobiological research, and thereby deepen understanding of suicide while potentially bridging these areas of study... - Method choice, intent, and gender in completed suicideD G Denning
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine, NY, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 30:282-8. 2000..Although women were significantly less likely to use a violent method than men, there was no difference in the lethality of their suicidal intent... - Emotion traits in older suicide attempters and non-attemptersL Seidlitz
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Affect Disord 66:123-31. 2001..Emotion traits may be helpful in assessing suicide risk... - The role of drinking in suicidal ideation: analyses of Project MATCH dataKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:402-8. 2003..The associations of suicidal ideation with both the intensity (drinks per drinking day) and frequency of alcohol consumption were examined in a longitudinal study of treated alcoholics... - Violence, alcohol, and completed suicide: a case-control studyK R Conner
Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:1701-5. 2001..Violent behavior may represent a risk factor for suicide. The authors tested the hypothesis that violent behavior in the last year of life is associated with completed suicide, even after controlling for alcohol use disorders... - Poor social integration and suicide: fact or artifact? A case-control studyP R Duberstein
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Psychol Med 34:1331-7. 2004..Sociological studies have shown that poor social integration confers suicide risk. It is not known whether poor integration amplifies risk after adjusting statistically for the effects of mental disorders and employment status... - Suicide in eldersY Conwell
University of Rochester Medical Center, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, 300 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642 8409, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 932:132-47; discussion 147-50. 2001..Strategies designed to identify this group and provide them with preventive services through outreach to the community have shown promise as late-life suicide prevention measures as well... - Suicide in the elderlyE D Caine
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642 8409, USA
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 16:S25-30. 2001.... - Domestic violence, separation, and suicide in young men with early onset alcoholism: reanalyses of Murphy's dataK R Conner
Geriatrics and Neuropsychiatry Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 30:354-9. 2000..Domestic violence appears to typify many of their domestic relationships, particularly among younger men and men with early onset alcoholism... - Personality traits and suicidal behavior and ideation in depressed inpatients 50 years of age and olderP R Duberstein
University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 55:P18-26. 2000.... - Age and suicidal ideation in older depressed inpatientsP R Duberstein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642 8409 Paul
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 7:289-96. 1999..Preventive or treatment measures initiated after the onset of the suicidal state may be insufficient, and other preventive strategies ought to be considered... - Family matters: a social system perspective on physician-assisted suicide and the older adultD A King
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Psychol Public Policy Law 6:434-51. 2000.... - Personality correlates of hopelessness in depressed inpatients 50 years of age and olderP R Duberstein
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY 14642, USA
J Pers Assess 77:380-90. 2001..Efforts to tie Hopelessness with the motivational, affective, and interpersonal constructs subsumed under Extraversion are warranted... 
Culture, risk factors and suicide in rural China: a psychological autopsy case control studyJ Zhang
Department of Sociology, State University of New York College at Buffalo, NY 14222, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 110:430-7. 2004..The current study examines the major risk factors and some cultural uniqueness related to Chinese rural suicide using a quantitative design...- Suicide at 50 years of age and older: perceived physical illness, family discord and financial strainP R Duberstein
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Psychol Med 34:137-46. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Interventions to decrease the likelihood of financial stress and to help families manage discord and severe physical illness may effectively reduce suicides among middle-aged and older adults... - Elderly suicide in Hong Kong--a case-controlled psychological autopsy studyH F K Chiu
Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Tai Po Hospital, Tai Po, Hong Kong, P R China
Acta Psychiatr Scand 109:299-305. 2004..To examine some of the risk factors for late life suicide in Hong Kong Chinese using a case-controlled psychological autopsy approach... - The validity of proxy-based data in suicide research: a study of patients 50 years of age and older who attempted suicide. II. Life events, social support and suicidal behaviorK R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, 3300 Crittenden Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:452-7. 2001.... - The validity of proxy-based data in suicide research: a study of patients 50 years of age and older who attempted suicide. I. Psychiatric diagnosesK R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
Acta Psychiatr Scand 104:204-9. 2001.... 
Increased use of antidepressants and decreasing suicide rates: a population-based study using Danish register dataA Erlangsen
National Centre for Register Based Research, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:448-54. 2008..The objective of the present study was to examine if the change in the suicide rate is associated with individuals' use of antidepressants as has been suggested by ecological studies...