Camilla Nord interview: A personalised approach to mental health

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 …