Insights in Predictive Neuroscience
Exploring emotion, energy, and meaning — how prediction shapes performance, health, and human potential.
Diagnoses is a human construction.
Diagnosis Is a Human Construction Not a Discovery "Most psychiatric and psychological diagnoses are not biological entities waiting to be found in the brain. They are categories we construct to make sense of behavioural regularities. Brains do not have clear...
Cortisol the brain’s learning chemical. Not a stress hormone. Part one
Most people in the western hemisphere have been taught that cortisol is the “stress hormone.” That is outdated biology. Old as the hills. Cortisol is understood as a learning hormone, a metabolic regulator that helps your brain update predictions when something...
Dopamine: prediction, not pleasure
Dopamine: prediction, not pleasure Dopamine is not a “pleasure chemical” or motivation switch. It does lots of things, one being a metabolic hormone regulating prediction signal, part of the brain’s allostatic tracking system that prepares the body for action. When...
Being Ignored
Why Being Ignored Creates Uncertainty. Part One Being ignored disrupts predictability in childhood and adult professional relationships. It affects your brain’s ability to predict social meaning, which directly affects energy regulation, emotional construction, and...
Diagnosis Is a Human Construction Not a Discovery
Diagnosis Is a Human Construction Not a Discovery Most psychiatric and psychological diagnoses are not biological entities waiting to be found in the brain. They are categories we construct to make sense of behavioural regularities. Brains do not have clear...
Trauma as Predictive Uncertainty, Not Brain Change.
Trauma as Predictive Uncertainty, Not Brain Change. What people call “trauma” is not a physical change or emotional scar, it is the brain predicting uncertainty, because the body has not got the energy to update it. When we talk about distressing experiences, we use...