The Adaptive Brain Series: Prediction: How Your Brain Constructs Reality 193

Send us Fan MailYour experience of dizziness, anxiety, brain fog, or “off” feeling may not be random - your brain could be misreading reality in real time. Dr. Michael Bagnell and May Bagnell break open the first episode of their five-part Adaptive Brain series, revealing how the brain constantly predicts what should happen next by blending vision, inner ear input, body position, and prior experience. When those signals stop matching, symptoms can show up as disorientation, fatigue, nausea, panic-like feelings, trouble driving at night, overwhelm in grocery stores, or even a sense that you can’t trust your own body.Dr. Bagnell explains the neuroscience behind predictive processing, prediction error, sensory re-weighting, and why normal-looking routine tests can miss the real problem. Mae Bagnell adds the lived experience and coaching perspective, highlighting how these issues can look like anxiety, how avoidant patterns can quietly make things worse, and why recognizing your own symptom patterns creates more agency instead of fear.You'll discover: Why the brain is more like a prediction engine than a video camera How prediction error drives learning, adaptation, and neuroplasticity Why sensory mismatch can feel like dizziness, anxiety, or disconnection What grocery stores, scrolling, night driving, patterned floors, and head turns have in common How “more is not better” when it comes to recovery and sensory challenge This conversation also shows how functional neurology approaches these problems with targeted testing of the eyes, vestibular system, body position, reaction time, heart rate variability, and more - then uses precise, tolerable challenges to help the brain recalibrate.Essential listening if you or someone you love deals with unexplained dizziness, motion sensitivity, visual overwhelm, post-concussion symptoms, migraine-related issues, or that unsettling feeling that everyday environments have become too much. The good news: your brain can adapt, and the right input at the right dose can help it do exactly that.For more information, visit us at www.bagnellbraincenter.com. You CAN Heal! We CAN Help!!