Medscape (4/11, Yasgur, Subscription Publication) reports, “Suicidal ideation (SI) occurs more frequently in adolescents with superior cognitive performance than in youngsters with lower cognition,” researchers concluded after studying “more than 6000 typically developing community-based adolescents aged 11 to 21 years and” then comparing “the cognitive and social functioning of those with and those without SI.” The findings were published online March 28 in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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