SynthesisEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
Decision-making and cognitive control in adolescent suicidal behaviors: a qualitative systematic review of the literature.
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- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: International Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and Attempt in Youth.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Gambling-related suicides and suicidality: A systematic review of qualitative evidence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Characterizing the co-occurrence of alcohol experimentation and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in early adolescence.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Toward integrating clinical and non-clinical associates of suicidality to inform potential intervention points among youth in Nairobi metropolitan, Kenya.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Classify the fNIRS signals of first-episode drug-naive MDD patients with or without suicidal ideation using machine learning.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of decision making and executive function in suicidal thoughts and behaviors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Correlation and risk factor analysis of suicidal behavior in adolescents with depression: the impact of stress and childhood trauma.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impulsive Decision-Making, Affective Experiences, and Parental History of Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors within Parent-Adolescent Dyads.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Impulsivity in adolescent girls diagnosed with trichotillomania: an evaluation of clinical and neuropsychological characteristics.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Social-ecological perspective on the suicidal behaviour factors of early adolescents in China: a network analysis.General psychiatry · 2024Article
- Clinical and Neuropsychological Features of Suicide Attempters in Tehran, Iran: A Comparative Study.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2024Article
- Integrative Analyses of scRNA-seq, Bulk mRNA-seq, and DNA Methylation Profiling in Depressed Suicide Brain Tissues.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Ketamine and esketamine in suicidal thoughts and behaviors: a systematic review.Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · 2023Review
- Impaired decision-making in borderline personality disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Symptoms characteristics of personality disorders associated with suicidal ideation and behaviors in a clinical sample of adolescents with a depressive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Cognitive Flexibility and Impulsivity Deficits in Suicidal Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Structural brain alterations associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young people: results from 21 international studies from the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Article
- Correlates and predictors of the severity of suicidal ideation in adolescence: an examination of brain connectomics and psychosocial characteristics.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2022Article
- The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide and the role of psychological pain during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
Suicide and suicidal behaviors represent a leading cause of morbidity and mortality during adolescence. While several lines of evidence suggest that suicidal behaviors are associated with risky decisions and deficient cognitive control in laboratory tasks in adults, comparatively less is known about adolescents. Here, we systematically reviewed the literature on the association between these neurocognitive variables and adolescent suicidal behaviors. The online search strategy identified 17 neurocognitive studies examining either cognitive control or decision-making processes in adolescents with past suicidal behaviors. Several studies have reported that adolescents with a history of suicidal behaviors present neuropsychological differences in the cognitive control (using Go/NoGo, suicide Stroop Test, continuous performance test, suicide/death Implicit Association Test), and decision-making (Iowa Gambling Task, Cambridge Gambling Task, cost computation, delay discounting, loss aversion tasks) domains. Due to a lack of replication or conflicting findings, our systematic review suggests that no firm conclusion can be drawn as to whether altered decision-making or poor cognitive control contribute to adolescent suicidal behaviors. However, these results collectively suggest that further research is warranted. Limitations included scarcity of longitudinal studies and a lack of homogeneity in study designs, which precluded quantitative analysis. We propose remediating ways to continue neuropsychological investigations of suicide risk in adolescence, which could lead to the identification of novel therapeutic targets and predictive markers, enabling early intervention in suicidal youth.
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