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[Multidimensional diagnostics of 121 suicides (author's transl)]
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
|May 15, 1981
Abstract:
121 suicides in the province of Salzburg in 1978 were subjected to multidimensional diagnostics. In all 94 accurately diagnosable cases a hereditary and/or acute brainsubstrate modification was found. The analysis of the typical symptom and syndrome configurations shows among other things a suicidal axis syndrome, which should be significant for the assessment and treatment of suicidality.
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