Kees van Heeringen is a Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, and Director of the Unit for Suicide Research at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also Co-founder of the Flemish Expertise Centre for Suicide Prevention. Professor van Heeringen's research has been awarded the Stengel Award by the International Association for Suicide Prevention.
1. What is suicidal behavior, and can it be prevented?; 2. Stress,
vulnerability, and suicide: the stress-diathesis model; 3. The dark side of
the brain: neuroscience approaches to suicidal behavior; 4. Lethal signals:
the molecular neuroscience of suicidal behavior; 5. I think, therefore I do
not want to be: the cognitive neuroscience of suicidal behavior; 6. Images
of the suicidal brain: systems neuroscience and suicide; 7. In my end is my
beginning: a developmental neuroscience perspective of suicidal behavior;
8. I predict, therefore I cannot be: a predictive coding account of
suicidal behavior; 9. Predicting the unpredictable: the contribution of
neuroscience to suicide prediction; 10. The treatment of suicide risk:
neuroscience aspects.
