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ArticleDiscover mental health2023

Temporal effects on death by suicide: empirical evidence and possible molecular correlates.

R Bhagar, H Le-Niculescu, K Roseberry, K Kosary, C Daly, A Ballew, M Yard, G E Sandusky, A B Niculescu

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Article in Discover mental health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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R Bhagar *Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Building 200B, 320 W. 15thStreet, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
H Le-Niculescu *Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Building 200B, 320 W. 15thStreet, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
K RoseberryDepartment of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Building 200B, 320 W. 15thStreet, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
K KosaryDepartment of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Building 200B, 320 W. 15thStreet, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
C DalyDepartment of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Building 200B, 320 W. 15thStreet, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
A BallewMarion County Coroner's Office, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
M YardINBRAIN, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
G E SanduskyINBRAIN, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
A B NiculescuDepartment of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Building 200B, 320 W. 15thStreet, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA. anicules@iupui.edu.

Funding

Biomarkers for SuicidalityR01MH117431 · NIMH · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI NICULESCU, ALEXANDER B · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
CSRD VA I01 CX002094NIMH NIH HHS R01MH117431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Popular culture and medical lore have long postulated a connection between full moon and exacerbations of psychiatric disorders. We wanted to empirically analyze the hypothesis that suicides are increased during the period around full moons. We analyzed pre-COVID suicides from the Marion County Coroner's Office (n = 776), and show that deaths by suicide are significantly increased during the week of the full moon (p = 0.037), with older individuals (age ≥ 55) showing a stronger effect (p = 0.019). We also examined in our dataset which hour of the day (3-4 pm, p = 0.035), and which month of the year (September, p = 0.09) show the most deaths by suicide. We had blood samples on a subset of the subjects (n = 45), which enabled us to look at possible molecular mechanisms. We tested a list of top blood biomarkers for suicidality (n = 154) from previous studies of ours

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Age differencesBiomarkersFull moonSuicide

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PMID37861857
PMCPMC10501025

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