There are many routes to mental wellbeing and award-winning neuroscientist Camilla Nord is at the forefront of finding them.

There are many routes to mental wellbeing and award-winning neuroscientist Camilla Nord is at the forefront of finding them. In her ground-breaking new book, The Balanced Brain, 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.

Camilla reframes mental health as an intricate, self-regulating process, one which is different for all of us, and shows that with so many factors at play, there are more possibilities for recovery and resilience than we might think.

Camilla Nord will be "In Conversation" with Prof. Hugo Critchley from the Brighton and Sussex Medical School,  discussing her book The Balanced Brain, which will be available to purchase on the night.

AUTHOR Biography

Camilla Nord read Physiology, Psychology, and Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, before completing a PhD in Neuroscience at University College London. She is the Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and also leads the Mental Health Neuroscience programme of research at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.

CHAIR BIOGRAPHY

Prof. Hugo Critchley is Foundation Chair of Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and co-director of the Sackler/Sussex Centre of Consciousness Science.
Hugo trained in Physiology and Medicine in the University of Liverpool and received his doctorate in Psychological Studies at the University of Oxford. He was a principal investigator at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology and group leader at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.