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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: CNS Spectr. 2010 Jun;15(6):375–381. doi: 10.1017/s1092852900029242

Table 1.

Characteristics of MRI studies of hyperintensities in unipolar and bipolar patients with and without a history of suicide attempts

Study Depression
Type 		SA/NSA
(N) 		Depression
Diagnostic
Criteria 		Mean
Age,
Years
SA/NSA 		MRI
Magnet
Strength 		Slice
Thickness
(mm) 		Lesion
Classification
System
Ahearn
et al.22 		Unipolar 20/20 DSM-IV 66.0/66.4 1.5 T 2 Boyko scale
Coffey scale
Ehrlich
et al.15 		Unipolar
and
bipolar		 43/110 DSM-IV 15.1
(total
sample)		 1.5 T 5 Coffey scale
(modified)
Ehrlich
et al.16 		Unipolar 62/40 DSM-IV 26.7
(total
sample)		 ? 5/3a Fazekas
(modified)
Pompili
et al.18 		Unipolar
and
bipolar		 44/55 DSM-IV-TR 45.6/47.3 1.5 T 5 Fazekas
(modified)

SA = suicide attempts; NSA = no suicide attempts.

a

The first number applies to axial acquisition and the second number to coronal acquisition.