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Camilla Nord interview: A personalised approach to mental health

Neuroscientist Camilla Nord, who has just published her first book The Balanced Brain, tells Liz Else why mental health science is increasingly about what works for individuals – from psychedelic therapy to exercise regimes

By Liz Else

27 September 2023

Camilla Nord

Mental health is about attempting balance, says Camilla NordB

Claudia Gannon

CAMILLA NORD, who heads up the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge, has just published her first book, The Balanced Brain: The science of mental health (Penguin). She explains how novel treatments, and a new emphasis on our sense of our body’s internal states, could transform mental health.

Liz Else: You have packed in some surprises in your book. Let’s start with what the title means.

Camilla Nord: I see mental health as a kind of homeostasis, as …

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