Rachel Holden is a clinical psychologist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom.

Rachel Holden
Clinical psychologist
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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Why it is imperative to ask autistic adolescents about bullying
Being bullied puts adolescents with autism at increased risk of suicide. Identifying and preventing bullying may help prevent suicides.

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To understand the brain as a network organ, we must image cortical layers
Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that.