Citation

Sparks DL, Little KY. Psychiatry Res. 1990; 32(1): 19-28.

Affiliation

Department of Pathology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2349310

Abstract

Serotonergic abnormalities have been regularly reported in the brains of suicide victims. Because of evidence that pineal function is altered in depressed subjects and that serotonin-releasing axons may innervate the pineal, we assayed tritiated serotonin binding in a series of control and suicide pineals. High affinity binding was present, and there were apparent differences between some suicides and controls.

Language: en