Table 1.

Brain sample collective, n_brain = 3, n_samples = 139.

Brain sample collective
	Age/sex	Cause of death	Anamnestic data	Suicide (verified)	Lithium medication in death	Timespan death—autopsy	Samples
							n	Regions
I	31/m	Pulmonary embolisma (deep vein thrombosis)	No psychiatric illness	No	No	< 48 h	n = 43	– Frontal lobe – Temporal lobe – Occipital lobe (case II, III) – Brain stem – Basal ganglia (striatum, pallidum) – Limbic system (hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, cingulate cortex, corpus callosum, fornix region)
II	43/m	Strangulationa	Depression, aggressive impulse control disorder	Yes	No	< 48 h	n = 46
III	46/m	Barbiturate Intoxicationa	Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis Barbiturate prescription	No	Yes	< 48 h	n = 50

^aNo pathomorphological signs of relevant brain edema, no macroscopic signs of degradation.