A neuropsychological comparison of depressed suicide attempters and nonattempters
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The neuropsychological performance of 18 older inpatients with major depression who were admitted following a suicide attempt was compared with that of 29 older depressed inpatients who had never attempted suicide. There was an interactive effect of age and group on the Trail Making Test, part B, such that attempters showed greater performance declines with age. No other differences were detected between groups on a range of neuropsychological tasks. These findings are discussed in the context of the methodological limitations of previous studies and the need for future research to better elucidate the nature of the relationships between age, cognitive functioning, and suicidal behavior.
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Keilp and colleagues found that adult suicide attempters performed poorly on frontal executive tasks relative to controls, similar to King and colleagues' observation in older adult attempters.
“Keilp and colleagues found that adult suicide attempters performed poorly on frontal executive tasks relative to controls (33), a similar observation to one made by King and colleagues in older adult attempters (34).”
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“In our study, both groups of depressed patients were outperformed by healthy controls on most tests assessing EFs, as reported in previous studies (Beats et al., 1996; Biringer et al., 2005; Jollant et al., 2011; Keilp et al., 2001, 2008, 2013; King et al., 2000; Lee et al., 2012; Marzuk et al., 2005; McDermott & Ebme…”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialPlanning of suicide attempts among depressed inpatients ages 50 and over
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“In a crosssectional study, King et al. (2000) assessed the role of executive functioning in late-life suicide in a small group of older adults using the Trail Making Test Part B.”
MethodNeuropsychological Markers of Suicidal Risk in the Context of Medical Rehabilitation
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“The failure to replicate findings regarding the WCST (Jollant, Lawrence, Olié, Guillaume, & Courtet, 2011; King et al., 2000; Raust et al., 2007) as well as stop-signal or the Go-noGo task (Dougherty et al., 2009; Keilp et al., 2013; LeGris et al., 2012) may imply that these domains are not so…”
ResultNeurobiology of Elderly Suicide
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“Deficits encompassed cognitive inhibition using the Stroop test (Richard-Devantoy et al., 2011), Hayling Completing Sentence, or Reading Distraction Task (RichardDevantoy et al., 2012b), mental flexibility using the Trail Making Test (TMT) (King et al., 2000; Richard-Devantoy et al., 2012b) and the Wisconsin Card Sort…”
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“This hypothesis has received support in several studies that found a link between cognitive functioning and suicide ideation or attempts (King et al., 2000; Kellip et al., 2001; Jollant et al., 2005; Ayalon et al., 2007).”
Neurocognition and the Suicidal Process
Rutter, S., Cipriani, N., Smith, E. C., Ramjas, E., Vaccaro, D. H., Lopez, M. M., Calabrese, W. R., Torres, D., Campos-Abraham, P., Llaguno, M., et al. (2020) · Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · doi:10.1007/7854_2020_162 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Cognitive Inhibition in Suicidal Depressed Elderly
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Epidemiology and Risk Factors For Suicide in the Elderly: 10-Year Update
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“Executive dysfunction has been associated with suicide attempts in younger patients in a study by Keilp and colleagues [46], and a small study by King and coauthors provides some evidence that older, depressed suicide attempters may suffer from a more rapid decline in cognitive function than nonattempters [47].”
ResultCostanza, A., Amerio, A., Aguglia, A., Magnani, L., Serafini, G., Amore, M., Merli, R., Ambrosetti, J., Bondolfi, G., Marzano, L., et al. (2021) · Brain Sciences · doi:10.3390/brainsci11121594 · Cited by 15 · see citing works
“Investigating whether the presence of SA in MDD patients had an impact on fluency, Keilp and colleagues found a lower fluency in MDD patients with SA when compared to MDD patients without SA [12].”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSuicide in older adults: determinants of risk and opportunities for prevention
Conwell, Y., & Duberstein, P. R. (2005) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/med/9780198529767.003.0013 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
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Suicidal elderly people in clinical and community settings
Leo, D. D., Draper, B., & Krysinska, K. E. (2009) · doi:10.1093/med/9780198570059.003.0095 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Neurocognitive markers of passive suicidal ideation in late-life depression
Jordan, J. T., Chick, C. F., Rolle, C. E., Hantke, N. C., Gould, C. E., Lutz, J., Kawai, M., Cotto, I., Karna, R., Pirog, S., et al. (2020) · International Psychogeriatrics · doi:10.1017/s1041610220003610 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
Neuropsychological Functioning in Prisoners with and Without Self-Injurious Behaviors
Andover, M. S., Schatten, H. T., Crossman, D. M., & Donovick, P. J. (2011) · Criminal Justice and Behavior · doi:10.1177/0093854811420670 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
“However, a pattern of worsening performance on Part B of the Trail Making Test with increasing age was found among suicide attempters but not among nonattempters (King et al., 2000).”
BackgroundMethodCase–control study of risk factors for suicide attempts in Isfahan, Iran
Golshiri, P., Akbari, M., & Zarei, A. (2017) · International Journal of Social Psychiatry · doi:10.1177/0020764016685347 · Cited by 12 · see citing works
“Although many researchers revealed that affective disorders and mainly depression are associated symptoms (King et al., 2000; WHO, 2002), in fact, suicide will always be a complex event with multiple causes (Minayo & Cavalcante , 2010).”
BackgroundBarsznica, Y., Noiret, N., Lambert, B., Monnin, J., Pinho, C. D., Hickel, J., Masse, C., Richard‐Devantoy, S., Morgny, C., Bennabi, D., et al. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712347 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
Le suicide de la personne âgée : existe-t-il des spécificités liées à l’âge ?
Richard‐Devantoy, S., & Jollant, F. (2013) · Santé mentale au Québec · doi:10.7202/1014949ar · Cited by 10 · see citing works
“…capacités de catégorisation) des suicidants en comparaison de témoins affectifs chez la personne d’âge moyen (Keilp et al., 2001 ; Keilp et al., 2008 ; Marzuk et al., 2005 ; Raust et al., 2007 ; Malloy-Diniz et al., 2009) et âgée (Dombrovski et al., 2008a ; King et al., 2000 ; McGirr et al., 2011).”
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Impaired Executive Function in Contemplated and Attempted Suicide in Late Life
Gujral, S., Dombrovski, A. Y., Butters, M. A., Clark, L., Reynolds, C. F., & Szántó, K. (2012) · American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · doi:10.1097/jgp.0b013e318265752f · Cited by 7 · see citing works
Conwell, Y., Orden, K. A. V., & Caine, E. D. (2012) · Psiquiatría Biológica · doi:10.1016/j.psiq.2012.09.003 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Self-citationThe neuropsychology of epilepsy and suicide: A review
Harcourt, S. (2020) · Aggression and Violent Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.avb.2020.101411 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
Medeiros, T., Lopes, E. S. T., Macedo, G., & Monteiro, L. M. C. (2014) · Americanae (AECID Library) · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Depressão e Comportamento Suicida: Atenção Primária em Saúde
Magalhães, L. D. S., & de Andrade, S. M. O. (2019) · Revista Psicologia e Saúde · doi:10.20435/pssa.v11i1.592 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Khurana, H., & Raj, A. (2018) · Advances in medical diagnosis, treatment, and care (AMDTC) book series · doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3480-8.ch023 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Neurocognitive Processes and Decision Making in Suicidal Behaviour
Richard‐Devantoy, S., & Courtet, P. (2015) · Advances in biological psychiatry · doi:10.1159/000434739 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Suicidal older people in clinical and community settings
Leo, D. D., Draper, B., & Krysinska, K. E. (2021) · doi:10.1093/med/9780198834441.003.0071 · Cited by 4 · see citing works
A Influência doTempo de Prática de Dança de Salão nos Níveis de Depressão de Idosos
de Melo, C. C., da Costa, V. T., Boletini, T. L., de Freitas, V. G., Teoldo, I., Arreguy, A. V., & Noce, F. (2018) · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · Cited by 4 · see citing works
Navya, K. P., Bose, S., Das, B., & Shreekantiah, U. (2023) · Archives of Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.25259/abp_8_2023 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
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“Previous studies have also found that elderly patients with SIs and SAs had poor performance on tests of executive functions, attention, memory, and cognitive flexibility,[23,24] with more stronger association with SAs.”
BackgroundResultElderly Suicide and Suicide Prevention
Shah, A. K., & Zarate-Escudero, S. (2017) · Mental health and illness worldwide · doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2414-6_24 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Understanding the Suicidal Brain
van Heeringen, K., & Bijttebier, S. (2016) · doi:10.1002/9781118903223.ch10 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Stress, Vulnerability, and Suicide
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.003 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
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“…previous studies have different evidence about the direction of the relationship between cognitive function and lifetime SI in the older adults [22, 24], this study did not find a significant positive or negative association between cognitive function and lifetime SI, which is inconsistent with…”
The Challenge of Suicide Prevention in Later Life
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The development and validation of an instrument to identify risk of self-harm in children
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Functional Brain Imaging of Suicidal Behaviour
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Understanding the suicidal brain Understanding the suicidal brain
Heeringen, C. V., & Marušić, A. (2003)
Elderly Suicide and Suicide Prevention
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What Is Suicidal Behavior, and Can It Be Prevented?
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.002
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.008
I Predict, Therefore I Cannot Be
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.009
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.010
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.004
Suicide and attempted suicide in older people
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van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.011
Psychosocial interventions for suicide prevention in the elderly
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van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.007
I Think, Therefore I Do Not Want to Be
van Heeringen, K. (2018) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781316563205.006
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- Authors
- King, D. A., Conwell, Y., Cox, C., Henderson, R. E., Denning, D. G., & Caine, E. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester Medicine (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Published
- 2000-02
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 64-70
- ISSN
- 0895-0172 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-7222
- OpenAlex
- W2166778848
- Cited by
- 111
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 2.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Neuropsychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 40381, MH51201, R01MH051201)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- suicide attempters, major depressive disorder, older adults, neuropsychological performance, cognitive function, Trail Making Test, age differences, suicidal behavior, cognitive decline
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychometrics, Risk Factors, Suicide, Attempted, Neurocognitive Disorders
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