Trauma is often described through the powerful phrase, “the body keeps the score.” But a new neuroscience model challenges The Body Keeps The Score. What if trauma is not only held in the body, but repeatedly predicted by the brain?
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Recent Neuroscience Modelling Suggests The Brain Predicts Trauma (Not The Body)
In this new story, I explore predictive coding, frozen inference, and metastability in everyday language — not to dismiss Bessel van der Kolk’s work, but to deepen the conversation around trauma, nervous-system reactions, and healing.
Maybe trauma is not only what happened to us. Maybe it is also what the brain and body learned to expect. And maybe healing begins when new evidence helps the nervous system predict a different outcome.
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Recent Neuroscience Modelling Suggests The Brain Predicts Trauma (Not The Body)
New Neuroscience Model Challenges The Body Keeps The Score

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