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- Third Annual Meeting of the Developing Centers for the Intervention and Prevention of Suicide
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July 11 – 12, 2007
Washington, DC
NIMH, NIDA, and NIAAA co-sponsored a meeting of the Developing Centers for the Intervention and Prevention of Suicide.
- Are Endophenotypes for Genetic Studies of Suicidal Behavior within Reach?
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June 25 – 26, 2007
New York, New York
This workshop was held to revisit the biological and behavioral underpinnings of suicidality. The meeting assembled leading researchers in suicide, neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, imaging, and related fields to review promising findings, to discuss research gaps and opportunities, and to propose next steps toward the identification of relevant endophenotypes for suicidality
- Assessing Suicidality During Antidepressant Treatment
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November 9 – 10, 2005
Bethesda, Maryland
The purpose of this 1 1/2-day workshop was to consider systematic approaches to assessing and studying suicidality and other related adverse events potentially occurring during treatment with antidepressant medications.
- Pragmatic Considerations of Culture in Preventing Suicide
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September 9 – 10, 2004
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
U.S. suicide rate patterns associated with age, gender and ethnicity provide profound evidence that culture is associated with suicide risk and protective factors. On September 9-10, 2004, the NIH Office of Rare Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, Indian Health Service, Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, and Emerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network co-sponsored a workshop entitled “Pragmatic Considerations of Culture in Preventing Suicide.”
