Monday, October 27, 2008

Suicide linked to brain changes


Posted today by BBC News:
The brains of people who commit suicide are chemically different to those who die from other causes, a Canadian study has suggested.
To read the entire article, click here.

Also see:

GABAA Receptor Promoter Hypermethylation in Suicide Brain: Implications for the Involvement of Epigenetic Processes

Study finds genomic changes in the brains of people who commit suicide

Suicide's genetic key discovered

Thanks go to John Devlin for bringing this article to my attention.

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