Thursday, August 22, 2013

Molecular Psychiatry Identifies Possible Biomarker For Suicide

A Blood Test For Suicide?  Biomarkers May Identify People At Risk by Karen Kaplan.  The Los Angeles times.  August 20, 2013.

Click on the above link, read the article and test your retention with a brief quiz.  Or, alternatively read the quiz and then read the article looking for the answers.  Or, do both.  Purposeful reading and self-quiz are excellent ways to improve retention.

(1)  Approximately ___________ people die of suicide worldwide each year, creating an urgent need to address potentially preventable deaths.

(2)  The research here focused on ___________, which are molecules that show how active certain genes are.

(3)  High expression of the gene __________ and low expression of the gene _________ were shown to have strong links to suicidal thinking.

(4)  Among the remaining questions to be explored in future research are __________________.

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