Constant sunlight linked to summer suicide spike

Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 19:07 in Psychology & Sociology

Suicide rates in Greenland increase during the summer, peaking in June. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry speculate that insomnia caused by incessant daylight may be to blame.

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