Emotional face recognition in adolescent suicide attempters and adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the bio-behavioral mechanisms underlying and differentiating suicide attempts from non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents. Adolescents who attempt suicide or engage in NSSI often report significant interpersonal and social difficulties. Emotional face recognition ability is a fundamental skill required for successful social interactions, and deficits in this ability may provide insight into the unique brain-behavior interactions underlying suicide attempts versus NSSI in adolescents. Therefore, we examined emotional face recognition ability among three mutually exclusive groups: (1) inpatient adolescents who attempted suicide (SA, n = 30); (2) inpatient adolescents engaged in NSSI (NSSI, n = 30); and (3) typically developing controls (TDC, n = 30) without psyc

SUBMITTER: Seymour KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642805 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature