The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior

Kees van Heeringen is a Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, and Director of the Unit for Suicide Research at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also Co-founder of the Flemish Expertise Centre for Suicide Prevention. Professor van Heeringen's research has been awarded the Stengel Award by the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

• 1. What is suicidal behavior, and can it be prevented?; 2. Stress, vulnerability, and suicide: the stress-diathesis model; 3. The dark side of the brain: neuroscience approaches to suicidal behavior; 4. Lethal signals: the molecular neuroscience of suicidal behavior; 5. I think, therefore I do not want to be: the cognitive neuroscience of suicidal behavior; 6. Images of the suicidal brain: systems neuroscience and suicide; 7. In my end is my beginning: a developmental neuroscience perspective of suicidal behavior; 8. I predict, therefore I cannot be: a predictive coding account of suicidal behavior; 9. Predicting the unpredictable: the contribution of neuroscience to suicide prediction; 10. The treatment of suicide risk: neuroscience aspects.

'… van Heeringen has made the neuroscience of suicide accessible, understandable, non-intimidating, reader-friendly, and actually rather interesting …' Alan L. Berman, The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention