ArticlePsychophysiology2019
Autonomic correlates of lifetime suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents with a history of depression.
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- Interoception in self-harm and suicide: a scoping review and meta-analysis.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
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- From Social Stress and Isolation to Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation in Suicidal Behavior.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- A History of Suicide Attempt Is Associated with Increased Sympathetic Activation in Bipolar Disorder.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2024Article
- Long-term stability of respiratory sinus arrhythmia among adults with and without a history of depression.Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Autonomic dysregulation and self-injurious thoughts and behaviours in children and young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis.JCPP advances · 2023Article
- Economic Choice and Heart Rate Fractal Scaling Indicate That Cognitive Effort Is Reduced by Depression and Boosted by Sad Mood.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Dissociated deficits of anticipated and experienced regret in at-risk suicidal individuals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Development of Autonomic Nervous System Assays as Point-of-Care Tests to Supplement Clinical Judgment in Risk Assessment for Suicidal Behavior: A Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Stressful events and adolescents' suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 epidemic: A moderated mediation model of depression and parental educational involvement.Children and youth services review · 2021Article
- Biological responses to acute stress and suicide: A review and opportunities for methodological innovation.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) have been associated with emotion dysregulation and atypical responses to affective and stressful stimuli. To investigate the psychophysiology involved, we measured changes in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and cardiac pre-ejection period (PEP; indexing parasympathetic and sympathetic functioning, respectively) in response to stressful- and sadness-eliciting laboratory probes. Our sample included adolescents with a history of depression and STBs (n = 177), adolescents with a history of depression but no history of STBs (n = 47), and healthy controls (n = 175). The outcome of interest was the most severe form of clinician-rated STBs across the subject's lifetime. In partial support of our hypotheses, during the stressful task, adolescents with a history of depression and STBs did not evidence the RSA decrease that was exhibited by controls and displayed greater PEP shortening compared to ever-depressed adolescents with no lifetime STBs. No group differences were found in either RSA or PEP reactivity to the sadness-eliciting stimulus. As expected, severity of STBs was positively correlated with the extent of PEP shortening during the stressful task. The results suggest that adolescents with a history of depression and STBs experience blunted parasympathetic responses to stress along with compensatory efforts. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of STBs among youths and underscore that future studies should examine physiological risk factors for these psychopathological outcomes.
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