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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’