Brain 5-HT2 Receptors in Suicide Victims: Violence of Death, Depression and Effects of Antidepressant Treatment

Five-HT2 binding sites were quantitated in six brain regions from 73 subjects, who dies by suicide, and 70 sudden death controls. There were no significant differences in the number of 5-HT2 binding sites between suicides and controls in any brain region within the total suicide group or when suicides were divided on the basis of violence of death.