Insights in Predictive Neuroscience
Exploring emotion, energy, and meaning — how prediction shapes performance, health, and human potential.
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...
Prediction — ADHD as Energy Regulation, Not Deficit
It is not that ADHD brains are willpower-poor or “meaning-gated;” it is that their prediction system requires higher meaning detailed language precision to unlock metabolic engagement. Prediction — ADHD as Energy Regulation, Not Deficit ADHD is not a disorder of...
The Myth of Fight-or-Flight: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us
Most of us grew up hearing about the “fight-or-flight response.” The idea that your brain has dedicated survival circuits—either to run or to confront danger—has shaped everything from psychology to pop culture. But modern neuroscience tells a very different story....