Deaths by suicide increase significantly during the week of a fullmoon, finds study iumedschool
]. In regards to suicide it has been shown that the variability and amount of total sunlight throughout the year can impact suicide rate in those with bipolar disorder, and those who experience large variations throughout the year in regards to sun exposure are at elevated risk for suicide []. This highlights that in addition to the impact of lunar cycles as noted above, seasonality, geography, and overall sun exposure seem to have relationship with psychiatric diseases.
We wanted to examine empirically if the above effects of full moon on suicides are true. We also examined empirically other potential temporal effects, such as peak time of day and peak month of year. For that, we studied a pre-COVID cohort of suicide completers from an urban coroner’s office. We also conducted molecular blood biomarkers analyses on a subset of the subjects on which we had blood samples.
A subset of cases had blood samples collected as part of our INBRAIN initiative . We required a last observed alive postmortem interval of 24 h or less, and the cases selected had completed suicide by means other than overdose, which could affect gene expression. The 45 total samples consisted of 38 male and 7 female violent suicide completers . 31 participants completed suicide by gunshot to head or chest, 12 by asphyxiation, 1 by slit wrist, and 1 by electrocution.
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