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Can A Brain Scan Tell If You Will Likely Commit Suicide?

Brain scans may provide clues to suicide risk. Researchers have identified brain circuitry differences that might be associated with suicidal behavior in individuals with mood disorders. The study provides a promising lead toward tools that can predict which individuals are at the highest risk for suicide. Source 7v.

Suicide Commit Will You Tell Scan Brain Can

This makes sense to me, considering mental health is, well, mental. It's in the brain.

I sat here for a few moments trying to put my thoughts through words with this topic, but I don't know if I can. The brain is so complicated, but we see scans of brains that show different responses to different stimuli, so maybe it is related to that?

Can A Brain Scan Tell If You Will Likely Commit Suicide? Health & Special Psychology

Well since we are talking about our brain and suicide it all come together. So I would assume that a brain scan can tell if you are suicidal. A brain scan can tell us a lot of things.

Suicide Commit Will You Tell Scan Brain Can

Mathematical algorithms and brain scans make it possible to detect risk.

A new technology designed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh is capable of preventing suicidal tendencies in an individual by analyzing brain changes detected by a scanner. In other words, it is capable of taking a picture of the brain of a person who in the future might be tempted to take their own life. Suicide risk is especially difficult to detect. To try to prevent this drama, science generally goes to the study of behavior and looks for psychological traces that respond to a suicidal pattern. But there is no physiological profile that allows establishing cause-effect relationships.

The work that is now being presented in the journal "Nature Human Behaviour" is pioneering because it has managed to identify changes in the functioning of the brain when it comes to processing some concepts that could indicate that a person is at greater risk of self-harm.