Priory consultant Dr Humphrey Needham-Bennett’s autobiography about life in forensic psychiatry has been chosen by BBC Radio 4 as its Book of the Week. Written under the pen name Dr Ben Cave, ‘What We Fear Most’ pre-dates his time at Priory, and is an account of a 25-year career in prisons and secure hospitals, treating […]
Metabolic differences in the diagnosis of and treatment refinement for episodic and chronic depression: A study carried out in the University of Eastern Finland discovered differences in one-carbon and energy metabolism between episodic and chronic depression. One-carbon metabolism plays a key role in the production of, e.g., neurotransmitters. This type of knowledge concerning metabolism in […]
Around forty per cent of transgender people have attempted to take their own lives at some point in time. That’s a shocking, harrowing statistic, supplied by the National Centre for Transgender Equality. And yet, having worked with such patients at my clinic for many years, it’s also not one that surprises me. We need to […]
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