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However, the staff exaggerates the United States' interest in the conflict when it suggests that the U.S. should be ready to commit ground forces to the conflict. The Bosnian conflict is essentially a civil...
...suicide victims, Mann's group found that in almost every case, not enough serotonin had reached that key portion of the brain. The neurological fail-safes that normally prevent people from hurting themselves seem to have been disabled. "Having the biochemical deficiency alone is not enough to make you commit suicide," Mann says. "Stress alone is not enough. But if you have the pre-existing condition and you pile on a major depression or a substance-abuse problem, then the chances...
...bleeding. Nothing's broken. Yet he cannot stop crying, and his companions are worried that he might kill himself. Is he just having a bad night, or is he likely to do himself harm? When it comes to determining an individual's desire to commit suicide, physicians rely heavily on experience and intuition. There has never been a laboratory test that doctors could order that would help them measure the risk more precisely...
...latest research -- parts of which were presented at last week's meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami -- suggests that measuring the levels of certain chemicals in the brain can identify those people with a biological predisposition to self-destruction. "More than 95% of the people who commit suicide show these changes in the brain ((at autopsy))," says Dr. John Mann of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. "But the biochemical abnormality is there even in those who attempt to kill themselves. And it is most pronounced in those who make the most...
...attempts suggests that some of the biochemical changes are temporary and may peak in the weeks prior to the act. If that finding holds up, it could lead to a lab test that would identify those who are most immediately vulnerable. Studies show that half of all people who commit suicide visit their doctor in the month prior to their death. Most of the time the physician finds nothing medically wrong with them and sends them home. Doctors may someday be able to give these people a blood test that measures their body's ability to manufacture serotonin. Those whose...