📗 Libro en inglés THE BALANCED BRAIN

A FINANCIAL TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Fascinating a refreshing counterblast to many popular ideas about wellbeing Prospect Excellent anyone reading it will come away with a kinder better understanding of themselves Lucy Foulkes There are many routes to mental wellbeing and award winning neuroscientist Camilla Nord is at the forefront of finding them In this ground breaking book she offers a revelatory tour of the scientific and technological developments that are revolutionizing the way we think about mental health showing why and how events and treatments can affect people in such different ways In The Balanced Brain Nord reframes mental health as an intricate self regulating process one which is different for all of us She examines a huge diversity of treatments from therapy and medication to recreational drugs and electrical brain stimulation to show how they work and why they sometimes don t In doing so she reveals how the small things we do to lift our mood during the course of a day a piece of chocolate a coffee chatting to a friend often work on the same pathways in our brain as the latest pharmacological treatments for mental health disorders Whether they help us to manage pain learn from experience or expe