Depression is an emotional disorder characterized by significant and persistent depression, and it is a serious mental disorder with high incidence rate, high disability rate and high suicide rate. Suicide is the most dangerous clinical symptom of depression, causing great harm to individuals, families and society. At present, the prevention of suicidal behavior in patients with depression mainly depends on the experience of clinicians, but there is a lack of an accurate predictive model. Understanding the neurobiological basis of suicidal behavior in patients with depression will help to effectively prevent suicidal behavior in patients with depression and reduce the social burden. In recent years, structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology has been used to explore the neuroimaging charictristics for the depression patient with or without suicidal ideation or suicidal behavior. It mainly involves the abnormal changes of orbitofrontal lobe, temporal parietal lobe, cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, striatum and other brain regions, and brain core cognitive network, especially prefrontal limbic system.It is clear that abnormal changes of brain structure or function were significantly associated with suicidal severity in depression patients. More studies are needed to explore the changes of brain structure and function in depression patients with suicidal ideation or suicidal behavior, and look for thepotentially neuroimaging markers that can be used to identify whether depression is accompanied by suicidal ideation/behavior in the early clinical stage.