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Tehran Raven Task fMRI in Recent Suicide Attempters

Replication Data for: Neuroimaging Insights into Recent Suicide Attempters Utilizing the Raven Task

Task fMRI during a Raven matrices reasoning task in adults with major depressive disorder who recently attempted suicide, depressed patients without an attempt and healthy controls. Scans are not public; group-wise ALFF maps and clinical scores are open under CC0.

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Overview

This entry covers the task fMRI cohort behind a 2025 PLOS One study from Iran University of Medical Sciences and the University of Tehran. The authors scanned adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) who had attempted suicide one to four weeks earlier, depressed patients with no history of suicidal behavior, and healthy controls while they solved Raven progressive matrices, and compared regional activation between the groups. The scans themselves are not public. A CC0 deposit on Harvard Dataverse holds a clinical table and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) maps, packed as one archive per group.

Composition

Sixty adults were analysed, 20 per group: suicide attempters with MDD, MDD without an attempt, and controls. Sixty-two were recruited; two were dropped only to make the groups equal in size. Groups were matched on age, sex and education, and 50 of the 60 participants were women. Mean age was about 34 years in every group. Attempters came from the poisoning ward of Baharloo Hospital in Tehran and were scanned roughly a week after discharge.

Acquisition

All scanning took place on a 3T Siemens system with a 64-channel head coil at the Iranian National Brain Mapping Lab. Each participant had a T1-weighted MPRAGE (1 mm slices, 176 slices) and an echo-planar BOLD run of 220 volumes (TR 3 s, TE 30 ms, 44 axial slices) during 24 Raven trials, with EEG recorded at the same time. Preprocessing used SPM12; group statistics used DPABI.

Annotations

There are no image labels. Participants completed questionnaires on depression, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, reasons for living, impulsivity, aggression and anxiety, and task accuracy and reaction times were recorded.

Known limitations

  • Raw and preprocessed MRI and the EEG are not shared; only derived ALFF maps and a clinical table are public.
  • The derived maps are in standard space and cannot be reprocessed with another pipeline.
  • Small single-site sample, mostly women. Table 1 lists age ranges down to 16 years, although the text gives 18 to 55 as the inclusion range.

Cohort

Aggregate numbers from the sources below. Bars are relative to the 60 subjects.

Sex

  • Female 50 83%
  • Male 10 17%

Table 1 in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Contrast / sequence

Groups can overlap

  • T1-weighted 60 100%
  • BOLD fMRI 60 100%

Neuroimaging in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Scanner vendor

  • Siemens Healthineers 60 100%

Neuroimaging in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Country

  • Iran 60 100%

Method in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Modality

  • MRI 60 100%

Neuroimaging in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Condition

Groups can overlap

  • Major depressive disorder 40 67%
  • Suicidal behavior 20 33%
    Age mean 34.1 ± 10.5
  • Healthy control 20 33%
    Age mean 34.4 ± 9.4

Table 1 in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Field strength

  • 3 T 60 100%

Neuroimaging in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

Condition by sex

Reported cross table. A dot marks a cell the source does not give.

FemaleMale
Major depressive disorder346
Suicidal behavior173
Healthy control164

Table 1 in Fattahi et al. 2025, Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task, PLOS One (PMC12321109)

License and access

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Access
Not shared

The data are not available outside the institution or study that holds them

The Harvard Dataverse deposit (CC0 1.0, open download without an account) holds only a clinical table and a 47 MB archive with one ALFF_FunImgARCW archive per group (HC, MDD, SI). Neither the paper nor the deposit offers the raw or preprocessed T1-weighted or functional MRI, or the simultaneously recorded EEG.

Access page

Different parts of the data carry different licenses. The summary on the right shows the most restrictive answer per rule.

For Clinical table and ALFF maps on Harvard Dataverse

Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal

Public domain dedication. Do anything with the data, including commercial use, without asking and without having to give credit.

Original license text Version read: 1.0 Checked 2026-10-07

What you can do

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
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What you can share

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes

What you must do

  • No
  • Share alike No
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  • Manuscript review No
  • Release code No
  • Return results No
  • Delete after use No

Limits

  • No
  • Location limits No
For T1-weighted and functional MRI, which are not shared

No published license or data use terms

The data holder has published no license and no data use terms. Any use, sharing or commercial right has to be agreed with the data holder, and nothing can be assumed to be allowed. Default copyright and data protection law still apply.

No release or terms are stated for the MRI scans themselves.

Original license text Checked 2026-10-08

What you can do

  • Commercial use Not stated
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  • Train ML models Not stated
  • Create derived data Not stated
  • Publish results Not stated

What you can share

  • Share the data Not stated
  • Share derived data Not stated
  • Share trained models Not stated

What you must do

  • Cite or credit Not stated
  • Share alike Not stated
  • Sign an agreement Not stated
  • Ethics approval Not stated
  • Manuscript review Not stated
  • Release code Not stated
  • Return results Not stated
  • Delete after use Not stated

Limits

  • No re-identification Not stated
  • Location limits Not stated

Citation

Fattahi M, Esmaeil-Zadeh M, Soltanian-Zadeh H, Rasouli N, Fallahinia N, Jafari Mehdi Abad A, Khosrowabadi R, Malakouti SK. Neuroimaging insights into recent suicide attempters utilizing the raven task. PLOS One 20(8):e0327562 (2025). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0327562. Data: Esmaeil-Zadeh M. Harvard Dataverse, V1 (2024). doi:10.7910/DVN/LPWPRC

Sources

Every number on this page comes from one of these documents. Each chart names the table or page it is taken from. The raw numbers are in stats.csv.