It's National #SuicidePrevention Week. Penn Medicine's Maria Oquendo, MD, PhD, is probing the human mind to prevent more lives from being lost to the 12th leading cause of death in the United States. “For many years, there's been a conceptualization of suicide as a catastrophic reaction to something that goes awry in a person's life,” she says. “But that doesn't really capture exactly what's happening.” Visit the 🔗 in our bio to learn more about her trailblazing research and remarkable findings over the past few years. #PeopleofPenn #mentalhealth #suicidepreventionweek #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness