John P Ackerman, Sandy M McBee-Strayer, Kristen Mendoza, Jack Stevens, Arielle H Sheftall, John V Campo, Jeffrey A Bridge
OBJECTIVE: Suicide among adolescents is a major public health problem. Decision-making deficits may play an important role in vulnerability to suicidal behavior, but few studies have examined decision-making performance in youth at risk for suicide. In this study, we seek to extend recent findings that adolescent suicide attempters process risk evaluations differently than adolescents who have not attempted suicide. METHODS: We assessed decision-making in 14 adolescent suicide attempters and 14 non-attempter comparison subjects, ages 15-19, using the Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT)...
March 2015: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology