The judges heard the joint current view of two psychiatricexperts - Professor Thomas Fahy and Professor Declan Murphy - was that Mr McKinnon's suicide risk was "moderate".
The court heard from psychiatricexperts that Dewani was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression and was considered to have tried to take his own life early last year.
Likewise, medical organizations, like the American Heart Association and the American Psychiatric Association, will seek these experts when they are reviewing or updating their guidelines for the optimal treatment of diseases.
These may have included what medical experts suggested at the time could be "psychiatric mimics", which can show similar symptoms as Parkinson's disease, but those symptoms cannot be attributed to neurological disease.
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