The balanced brain : The science of mental health.

Cover
Contents
Introduction
Part One: How the brain constructs your mental health
1. Natural highs: pleasure, pain and the brain
2. The brain-body axis
3. Learning to expect wellbeing
4. Motivation, drive and 'wanting'
Part Two: Enhancing mental health via the brain
5. Placebos and nocebos
6. How do antidepressants work?
7. Other drugs
8. How psychotherapy changes the brain
9. Electric feelings
10. Is there a mentally healthy lifestyle?
11. The changing nature of mental health and disorder
Acknowledgements
References
Index