@article{ref1,
title="Depressed inpatients, electrodermal reactivity, and suicide - a study about psychophysiology of suicidal behavior",
journal="Archives of suicide research",
year="1999",
author="Wolfersdorf, Manfred G. and Straub, R. and Barg, T and Keller, Ferdinand and Kaschka, Wolfgang P.",
volume="5",
number="1",
pages="1-10",
abstract="This study deals with the psychophysiological (electrodermal reactivity in a habituation experiment, habituation score) basis of suicidal behaviour. It shows habituation data of 30 suicides with violent method compared to age- and sex-matched control groups with different suicidal expressions, on a large database of a total sample of 504 depressed inpatients. The major finding of a significantly reduced electrodermal reactivity (habituation score) in suicidal action versus suicidal thinking confirms early results but in a comprehensive large sample. Also, it confirms our clinical hypothesis of a biological basis of suicidal action, specially in suicidal acts with violent methods.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1381-1118",
doi="10.1080/13811119908258311",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811119908258311"
}