Scientists do know for sure that the right half of the cerebrum controls the left side of your body, and the left half controls the right side. The Cerebellum's Balancing Act. Next up is the cerebellum. The cerebellum is at the back of the brain, below the cerebrum. It's a lot smaller than the cerebrum at only 1/8 of its size.
Suicide rates: South Korea has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries. Greece has the lowest. Gender gap: In Mexico, Poland and the Slovak Republic, for each female death there are at least five male deaths. By contrast, in Korea, the Netherlands and Norway there are two male suicides for each female death.
The increases were so widespread that they lifted the nationâs suicide rate to 13 per 100,000 people, the highest since 1986. The rate rose by 2 percent a year starting in 2006, double the annual rise in the earlier period of the study. In all, 42,773 people died from suicide in 2014, compared with 29,199 in 1999.