Abstract

This Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award will enable the Principal Investigator to undertake a series of investigations of suicide in the elderly. The proposed research is multidimensional, and includes epidemiological, clinical/descriptive, and neurobiological perspectives. Each dimension will be studied in samples of elderly suicide attempters, completed suicide victims, and control populations. The Principal Investigator will also take courses, study independently, and seek expert consultation in areas relevant to the investigation of suicide and late-life affective disorders. In addition to his own program of suicide research, he will lead a collaborative multidisciplinary effort to more fully understand suicidal behavior from social and environmental perspectives. The Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, through its NIMH Clinical Research Center for the Study of Psychopathology of the Elderly, is committed to developing a major multidisciplinary program studying affective disorders and suicide in the elderly. With the support of this Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award, the Principal Investigator will develop and direct these efforts.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Academic/Teacher Award (ATA) (K07)
Project #
5K07MH000748-03
Application #
3077749
Study Section
Life Course and Prevention Research Review Committee (LCR)
Project Start
1988-08-01
Project End
1991-07-31
Budget Start
1990-08-01
Budget End
1991-07-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1990
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Rochester
Department
Type
Schools of Dentistry
DUNS #
208469486
City
Rochester
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
14627

  Publications

Erlangsen, Annette; Agerbo, Esben; Hawton, Keith et al. (2009) Early discontinuation of antidepressant treatment and suicide risk among persons aged 50 and over: a population-based register study. J Affect Disord 119:194-9
Conner, K R; Duberstein, P R; Conwell, Y (2000) Domestic violence, separation, and suicide in young men with early onset alcoholism: reanalyses of Murphy's data. Suicide Life Threat Behav 30:354-9
Conner, K R; Duberstein, P R; Conwell, Y et al. (2000) After the drinking stops: completed suicide in individuals with remitted alcohol use disorders. J Psychoactive Drugs 32:333-7
Duberstein, P R; Conwell, Y; Cox, C (1998) Suicide in widowed persons. A psychological autopsy comparison of recently and remotely bereaved older subjects. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 6:328-34
Conwell, Y; Duberstein, P R; Cox, C et al. (1998) Age differences in behaviors leading to completed suicide. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 6:122-6
Porsteinsson, A; Duberstein, P R; Conwell, Y et al. (1997) Suicide and alcoholism. Distinguishing alcoholic patients with and without comorbid drug abuse. Am J Addict 6:304-10
Conwell, Y; Duberstein, P R; Cox, C et al. (1996) Relationships of age and axis I diagnoses in victims of completed suicide: a psychological autopsy study. Am J Psychiatry 153:1001-8
Conwell, Y; Raby, W N; Caine, E D (1995) Suicide and aging. II: The psychobiological interface. Int Psychogeriatr 7:165-81
Duberstein, P R (1995) Openness to experience and completed suicide across the second half of life. Int Psychogeriatr 7:183-98
Duberstein, P R; Conwell, Y; Caine, E D (1994) Age differences in the personality characteristics of suicide completers: preliminary findings from a psychological autopsy study. Psychiatry 57:213-24

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