Suicide study, new approaches

doi:10.15406/jpcpy.2025.16.00816

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Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry

Editorial Volume 16 Issue 3

Suicide study, new approaches

Da-Yong Lu

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School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, China

Correspondence: Da-Yong Lu, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, PRC, China

Received: May 26, 2025 | Published: June 9, 2025

Citation: Da-Yong L. Suicide study, new approaches. J Psychol Clin Psychiatry. 2025;16(3):87-88. DOI: 10.15406/jpcpy.2025.16.00816

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Abstract

Human suicide lost many lives annually. The complex features of human suicide are waiting to be revealed. New prediction, prevention and countermeasure are emerging more recently. Yet, diagnostic and therapeutic study is needed in mortality reduction. Effective drugs and therapeutics are underway. In this editorial, different suicide treatment approaches are highlighted.

Keywords: suicide, medical research, diagnostics, mental illness

Introduction

Clinical scenario

Human suicide lost many life annually.^1–3 The complex features of human suicide are waiting to be revealed. New prediction, prevention and countermeasure are emerging more recently.^3–7 Yet, diagnostic and therapeutic study is needed in mortality reduction. Effective drugs and therapeutics are underway. In this editorial, different suicide treatment approaches are highlighted.

Knowledge evolution

The diagnostic and therapeutic studies were evolving across the history (Table 1).^8–10

Timeline	Major discovery
Ancient Greece	Four elements and melancholy (excess of black bile)
Aretaeus of cappadocia	Clinical feature of depressive
Middle age	Patients with delusion
16^th to 17^th	Clinical diagnosis & behavior abnormal
18^th	Nervous (animal spirits)
19^th	Psychiatric symptoms
20^th	Mood disorder & electroplexy & psychosurgery

Table 1 Historic order of suicide knowledge changes

These long processes are core areas for knowledge evolution and cutting-edge technology utilities.

Biology studies

Mental disorders has high rate of human deaths worldwide. The biomedical studies of mental diseases and suicide are the basic. The advanced genetic and molecular knowledge are reshaping the suicide treatment studies. The biomedical aspects of mental health problems were translated to high-quality suicide treatment.

The explorations of suicide and mental illness last to modern medicine. However, modern diagnostics (genes or molecular) is a new trend.^11–15 Human suicides were reported to be controlled by drug, pleasant atmosphere and teenage education. The improved therapeutics should be discovered by adhering with modern biomedical studies.

Current achievements

Diagnostic insights: Psychiatric review is popular for clinicians or psychiatrists—score or rating for patients. Genetic platforms, like as pharmacogenetics (PG), sequencing, multi-omics or brain image are new frontiers to progress. The brain features of morphology see promising outcome in current studies.^11–15 The genetic changes in many genes are under evaluations.^16–19 At least 40 human genes are reported in human suicide. Many scientific research and challenge should be addressed in future.

To establish new suicide diagnostic platforms, brain image study is the key to popularized.^20–25 These complex process studies four-fold increase in article number since 2005.²⁶ More structural or functional variations have been discovered.

Clinical therapeutic studies

The progress of suicide studies is rapidly.²⁷ Some antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, SSRI show favorable outcomes in the clinic. In addition to antidepressants, other therapeutic selections, such as light therapy (physical treatment),²⁸ emotional regulation,²⁹ education for teenage³⁰ are also useful for suicide reduction.

Computation and artificial intelligence

Mathematics or computation (artificial intelligence, AI) are playing important role. Mathematics methods or equation can increase way or latitude of problem thinking and solving.^31,32 AI can simply these research and clinical application.^33–35.

Future approaches

Genetic- or molecular-based suicide prediction and prevention system might be built in upcoming decades. After these studies, patient diagnostics will be quicker and low costs. Drug or other types therapeutics can be highly effective, personalized and usefulness. Investigational pathways are discussed as

Biology, scoring and computational systems help clinical diagnosis and treatments
Different algorithm or machine learning for initiating several workable paradigms for individual patients
Establishing new diagnosis and treatments by modern technology (genetic, molecular and brain image)
Collecting more biology and pathology data (genome-wide association study) in the clinic.
Accumulating treatment data and algorithms for future referencing (big-data processing, machine-learning and deep learning)

Conclusions

Human suicidal study and application can save life of sufferers. Many new biomedical approaches between patients and normal people are highly needed. This kind of diagnosis, treatments and social integration may possibly help lives of patients and make this world more harmonies.