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ReviewBrain sciences2023

Biological Factors Underpinning Suicidal Behaviour: An Update.

Maya N Abou Chahla, Mahmoud I Khalil, Stefano Comai, Lena Brundin, Sophie Erhardt, Gilles J Guillemin

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Review in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. A Cross-Matrix Peripheral Transcriptional Signature in Suicide Attempt:International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  9. Epigenetic Mechanisms of Suicidal Behavior Formation: A Review.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2026
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  12. A biological phenotype of suicide attempt in adolescents with nonsuicidal self-injury: a machine-based learning approach.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  19. Targeted Research and Treatment Implications in Women With Depression.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 7 countries.

Maya N Abou ChahlaDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University, Beirut 11072809, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-6352-4122
Mahmoud I KhalilDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University, Beirut 11072809, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0001-7629-4357
Stefano ComaiDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5686-7194
Lena BrundinDivision of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
Sophie ErhardtDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
Gilles J GuilleminNeuroinflammation Group, Faculty of Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8105-4470
Beirut Arab University · LBKarolinska Institutet · SEMacquarie University · AUUniversity of Padua · ITVan Andel Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Suicide, a global health burden, represents the 17th leading cause of death worldwide (1.3%), but the 4th among young people aged between 15 and 29 years of age, according to World Health Organization (WHO), 2019. Suicidal behaviour is a complex, multi-factorial, polygenic and independent mental health problem caused by a combination of alterations and dysfunctions of several biological pathways and disruption of normal mechanisms in brain regions that remain poorly understood and need further investigation to be deciphered. Suicide complexity and unpredictability gained international interest as a field of research. Several studies have been conducted at the neuropathological, inflammatory, genetic, and molecular levels to uncover the triggers behind suicidal behaviour and develop convenient and effective therapeutic or at least preventive procedures. This review aims to summarise and focus on current knowledge of diverse biological pathways involved in the neurobiology of suicidal behaviour, and briefly highlights future potential therapeutic pathways to prevent or even treat this significant public health problem.

Indexed as

epigeneticshypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axiskynurenine pathwayneuroinflammationpsychiatric disordersrisk factorssuicidal ideationsuicidesuicide attempts

Identifiers

PMID36979315
PMCPMC10046421
OpenAlexW4327739742

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