Balanced Brain News Today

Seems like it’s been a few weeks since we dove into nonfiction. We’ve gotten in far more than I will be able to list here, but here are just some

There are some big differences between living in, say, Champaign-Urbana and Tuscola.

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Puritanical mental health advice abounds on social media. But recently, letting loose was exactly what I needed 

This accessible book looks at how our brains work and evaluates hyped treatments for our most common psychological problems.

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

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Last year, research cast doubt on the dominant ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression. Now two persuasive books by scientists Philip Gold and Camilla Nord offer very different causes of the illness – though both are optimistic about our future treatment of the ‘cancer of the self’