ch. 1. Diagnosis, traits, states, and comorbidity in suicide / Jan Fawcett -- ch. 2. Neuroanatomy of serotonergic abnormalities in suicide / Helene Bach and Victoria Arango -- ch. 3. Noradrenergic dysfunction in depression and suicide / Michelle J. Chandley and Gregory A. Ordway -- ch. 4. Gamma-aminobutyric acid involvement in depressive illness : interactions with corticotropin-releasing hormone and serotonin / Hymie Anisman, Zul Merali, and Michael O. Poulter -- ch. 5. Role of the endocannabinoid system in the neurobiology of suicide / K. Yaragudri Vinod -- ch. 6. Stress-diathesis model of suicidal behavior / Kees van Heeringen -- ch. 7. Do serum cholesterol values and DST results comprise independent risk factors for suicide? / William Coryell -- ch. 8. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in suicide pathophysiology / Yogesh Dwivedi -- ch. 9. Neuroimaging high risk states for suicide / Jeffrey H. Meyer -- ch. 10. Gene-environment interaction and suicidal behavior / Alec Roy -- ch. 11. Genetic factors and suicidal behaviour / Clement C. Zai. [et al.] -- ch. 12. Approaches and findings from gene expression profiling studies of suicide / Laura M. Fiori and Gustavo Turecki -- ch. 13. Epigenetic effects of childhood adversity in the brain and suicide risk / Benoit Labonte and Gustavo Turecki -- ch. 14. Genetics of suicidal behavior in children and adolescents / Gil Zalsman -- ch. 15. Neurobiology of teenage suicide / Ghanshyam N. Pandey and Yogesh Dwivedi -- ch. 16. Suicidal behavior in pediatric population : neurobiology and the missing links in assessing risk among patients with bipolar disorder / Sonali Nanyakkara, Kiran Pullagurla, and Mani Pavuluri -- ch. 17. Suicide in late life / Olusola A. Ajilore and Anand Kumar -- ch. 18. Intermediate phenotypes in suicidal behaviour : focus on personality / Dan Rujescu and Ina Giegling -- ch. 19. Toxoplasma gondii, the immune system, and suicidal behavior / Olaoluwa Okusaga and Teodor T. Postolache -- ch. 20. Peripheral biomarkers for suicide / Ghanshyam N. Pandey and Yogesh Dwivedi -- ch. 21. Medication in suicide prevention : insights from neurobiology of suicidal behavior / J. John Mann and Dianne Currier.