In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Camilla Nord about the neuroscience of mental health. They define mental health and how the brain is central to mental health, measuring subjective vs. objective well-being, and chronic pain. They discuss depression, anhedonia, dopamine networks, behaviorism for motivation, and reward and valence. They talk about various emotional theories, gut microbiome, Bayesian brain and predictive processing, placebos, homeopathy, antidepressants, and many other topics.

Camilla Nord is a neuroscientist and Associate Professor and MRC Investigator at Cambridge University. She has a degree in physiology, psychology, and philosophy from Magdalen College-Oxford. She has her PhD from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience from University College, London. Her primary focus is on the physiology and neuroscience around mental health disorders. She is the author of the book, The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health.

Twitter: @camillalnord

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