Association between solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder

M Bauer; T Glenn; M Alda; OA Andreassen; E Angelopoulos; R Ardau; Y Ayhan; C Baethge; R Bauer; BT Baune; C Becerra-Palars; F Bellivier; RH Belmaker; M Berk; Y Bersudsky; Ş Bicakci; H Birabwa-Oketcho; TD Bjella; J Cabrera; EY Wo Cheung; M Del Zompo; S Dodd; M Donix; B Etain; A Fagiolini; KN Fountoulakis; MA Frye; A Gonzalez-Pinto; JF Gottlieb; P Grof; H Harima; C Henry; ET Isometsä; S Janno; F Kapczinski; M Kardell; S Khaldi; S Kliwicki; B König; TL Kot; R Krogh; M Kunz; B Lafer; M Landén; ER Larsen; U Lewitzka; RW Licht; C Lopez-Jaramillo; G MacQueen; M Manchia; W Marsh; M Martinez-Cengotitabengoa; I Melle; F Meza-Urzúa; MY Ming; S Monteith; G Morken; E Mosca; AA Mozzhegorov; R Munoz; SV Mythri; F Nacef; RK Nadella; FG Nery; RE Nielsen; C O'Donovan; A Omrani; Y Osher; HØ Sørensen; U Ouali; YP Ruiz; M Pilhatsch; M Pinna; FDR da Ponte; D Quiroz; R Ramesar; N Rasgon; MS Reddy; A Reif; P Ritter; JK Rybakowski; K Sagduyu; BS Raghuraman; ÂM Scippa; E Severus; C Simhandl; PW Stackhouse; DJ Stein; S Strejilevich; M Subramaniam; AH Sulaiman; K Suominen; H Tagata; Y Tatebayashi; L Tondo; C Torrent; AE Vaaler; E Vares; J Veeh; E Vieta

Journal article

Association between solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder

M Bauer, T Glenn, M Alda, OA Andreassen, E Angelopoulos, R Ardau, Y Ayhan, C Baethge, R Bauer, BT Baune, C Becerra-Palars, F Bellivier, RH Belmaker, M Berk, Y Bersudsky, Ş Bicakci, H Birabwa-Oketcho, TD Bjella, J Cabrera, EY Wo Cheung Show all

Journal of Psychiatric Research | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.03.001

Abstract

In many international studies, rates of completed suicide and suicide attempts have a seasonal pattern that peaks in spring or summer. This exploratory study investigated the association between solar insolation and a history of suicide attempt in patients with bipolar I disorder. Solar insolation is the amount of electromagnetic energy from the Sun striking a surface area on Earth. Data were collected previously from 5536 patients with bipolar I disorder at 50 collection sites in 32 countries at a wide range of latitudes in both hemispheres. Suicide related data were available for 3365 patients from 310 onset locations in 51 countries. 1047 (31.1%) had a history of suicide attempt. There wa..

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Bernhard Baune Author

Michael Berk Author

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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

Michael Berk is supported by an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship (APP1059660 and APP1156072). Ole A Andreassen, Thomas D Bjella and Ingrid Melle are supported by Research Council of Norway (223273) and KG Jebsen Stiftelsen. Ravi Nadella has received funding from the Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS), jointly funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, and the Pratiksha trust. Biju Viswanath has received funding by Department of Science and Technology INSPIRE scheme, Government of India. Mikael Landen was supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council (K2014-62X-14647-12-51 and K2010-61P-21568-01-4), the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (KF10-0039), and the Swedish Federal Government under the LUA/ALF agreement (ALF 20130032, ALFGBG-142041).