Neuroimaging Evidence for the Reduction of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Adolescents and Adults: Data Across Treatments Showing What Changes in the Brain with Clinical Improvement

Neuroimaging research has accelerated in the area of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB's) but the major focus continues to be finding a spatial, functional, temporal biosignature within high risk populations and common among them. However, there is little neuroimaging evaluation of what happens with interventions and new treatments being developed.

The goal of the Research Topic is to increase neuroimaging data evaluating the affects of treatments to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors, to create more momentum towards translational work in this area, to provide evidence for or against clinical decisions specific to STB reduction and to increase research in STB's in adolescents and adults.

Potential manuscripts should be neuroimaging studies (fMRI, morphometry, DTI, resting state MRI and network neuroscience) of interventions to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors. They can be new research, retrospective studies, parallel evaluations of imaging changes/evidence in clinical studies evaluating relevant clinical conditions. Of particular interest will be machine learning or deep learning studies or reviews/metanalyses.

Keywords: suicide, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, neuroimaging, neuroscience, neurobiology, treatment, evaluation of treatments

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