{"id":226136,"date":"2025-11-29T04:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/key-biological-marker-into-why-young-people-self-harm-uncovered"},"modified":"2025-11-29T04:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:26:50","slug":"key-biological-marker-into-why-young-people-self-harm-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/key-biological-marker-into-why-young-people-self-harm-uncovered","title":{"rendered":"Key biological marker into why young people self-harm uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-biological-marker-into-why-young-people-self-harm-uncovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many as one in six teenagers have self-harmed at some point in their lives. As well as being an indicator of emotional pain, self-harm is also the best-known predictor of death by suicide\u2014yet researchers know little about the emotional and biological factors that lead to it.<\/p>\n<p>A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44220-025-00520-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Mental Health<\/i>, led by Professor Rory O\u2019Connor from the University of Glasgow helps to uncover the biological mechanisms behind why young people self-harm.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding on his research into the psychological factors associated with self-harm, Professor O\u2019Connor\u2019s latest findings reveal that young people with a history of self-harm present a particular biological skin response to electrical activity\u2014a physiological marker associated with difficulties in generating and managing emotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as one in six teenagers have self-harmed at some point in their lives. As well as being an indicator of emotional pain, self-harm is also the best-known predictor of death by suicide\u2014yet researchers know little about the emotional and biological factors that lead to it. A new study published in Nature Mental Health, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}