Understanding the suicidal brain

@article{vanHeeringen2003UnderstandingTS,
  title={Understanding the suicidal brain},
  author={Cornelis van Heeringen and Anamarija Maru{\vs}i{\'c}},
  journal={British Journal of Psychiatry},
  year={2003},
  volume={183},
  pages={282 - 284}
}
It has been suggested that the key to preventing suicide is not in the study of the brain, but in the direct study of the human emotions (Shneidman, 1996). However, recent advances in neuroscience are providing support for a theory of human emotions that implicates increasingly well-defined brain 
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