Regional grey matter volume reduction in adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) disorder is defined as presentation with deliberate self-inflicted damage to body tissue on five or more days within the past year without the intent of suicide (APA, 5th Edition, 2013), but rather with the intent to seek relief from a negative feeling or cognitive state, to resolve an interpersonal difficulty or to induce a positive state (Wilkinson, 2013; Zetterqvist, 2015).. NSSI should be regarded as a vital public health concern as it is highly prevalent amongst adolescents (a lifetime prevalence of 17.2% in adolescents world-wide) (Swannell et al., 2014), associated with development of mental disorders (Nock et al., 2006), causes serious harm (Bergen et al., 2012) and predicts future suicidal behaviour (Grandclerc et al., 2016).

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - August 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ayaka Ando, Corinna Reichl, Friederike Scheu, Anastasia Bykova, Peter Parzer, Franz Resch, Romuald Brunner, Michael Kaess Source Type: research