A suicidal combination.People with a history of both severe depression and headaches accompanied by sensations known as auras experience a greatly increased likelihood of thinking about and attempting suicide, asserts psychologist Naomi Breslau of Henry Ford Hospital Henry Ford Hospital is a hospital located in Detroit, Michigan a few blocks from Wayne State University and the New Center area, near the Fisher Building and Cadillac Place. The hospital was founded in 1915 by Henry Ford as a philanthropic project. in Detroit. Migraines (tool) MIGRAINES - A graphical user interface for evaluating and interacting with the Aspirin neural network simulation. Utilities exist for moving quickly from an Aspirin description of a network directly to an executable program for simulating and evaluating that network. heralded by aura symptoms, such as ringing in the ears, nausea, blurred blur v. blurred, blur·ring, blurs v.tr. 1. To make indistinct and hazy in outline or appearance; obscure. 2. To smear or stain; smudge. 3. vision or extreme sensitivity to light, boost the already elevated risk of suicide among severely depressed individuals, Breslau contends in the February NEUROLOGY neurology (n  rŏl`əjē, ny–), study of the morphology, physiology, and pathology of the human nervous system. . The brain chemistry linking migraines with auras and severe depression to suicide attempts suicide attempt, suicide bid n → intento de suicidio suicide attempt, suicide bid n → tentative f de suicide remains unclear, she says. However, other research has found abnormalities in the chemical messenger serotonin serotonin (sĕr'ətō`nĭn), organic compound that was first recognized as a powerful vasoconstrictor occurring in blood serum. It was partially purified, crystallized, and named in 1948, and its structure was deduced a year later. for all three conditions. Breslau and her colleagues interviewed a random sample of 1,007 adults, ages 21 to 30, who belong to a Detroit-area health maintenance organization. Of 788 "control" participants reporting neither migraines nor severe depression, about 2 percent noted past suicide attempts. About the same rate of suicide attempts appeared among 51 volunteers who experienced no depression and who had migraines without auras. In contrast, 14 of 26 adults who suffered severe depression as well as migraines with auras had attempted suicide--by far the highest rate of any group in the study. Suicide-attempt rates of 33 participants reporting only migraines with auras, 91 reporting only severe depression and 18 reporting migraines without auras plus severe depression also markedly exceeded the control rate, but to a considerably lesser degree. Volunteers with a background of depression and migraines with auras also reported substantially more prior thoughts about death and suicide, and far more periods during which they wanted to die, than any other group. |
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