The article argues that psychological trauma is better understood as a disorder of prediction in the brain rather than a literal storage of trauma in body tissues. It proposes a predictive coding framework in which the brain overestimates threat after trauma, leading to reduced cognitive flexibility and metastability, and suggests flow states as a potential intervention to restore adaptability. The discussion highlights how this reframing aligns with evidence from flow research and practical interventions, while acknowledging limitations and the need for further testing.

The topic is of interest to psychology because it challenges common metaphors about trauma, integrates theoretical neurocience with practical interventions, and invites examination of how predictive processes shape emotional and behavioral responses after adverse events.

Article Title: Scientists challenge The Body Keeps the Score with a new predictive model of trauma

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/scientists-challenge-the-body-keeps-the-score-with-a-new-predictive-model-of-trauma/

#trauma #predictivecoding #flowstate #metastability #neuroscience #psychology #therapies #cognitiveflexibility #predictionerror #psychotrauma

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

http://www.righto.com/2025/08/static-latchup-metastability-386.html

#HackerNews #Here #be #dragons: #Preventing #static #damage #latchup #and #metastability #in #the #386

staticdamage #latchup #metastability #386 #technology #engineering

First PhD paper has been submitted and it’s now up on the Arxiv!
"Emergence of metastability in frustrated oscillatory networks: the key role of hierarchical modularity"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14542

(Very happy to hear about any feedback and critics)

#Complexity and #emergent behaviours are often found when tendencies of order and disorder are in competition. When these tendencies coexist in networks of oscillators, such as #whole_brain models, we say we are in the metastable regime. But how do we achieve #metastability without having to fine tune our model?

#DNA facilitates escape from #metastability in #self_assembling #systems.

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-dna-metastability-self-assembling.html