This article provides a neurobiological account of symptoms that have been called
'hysterical','psychogenic'or 'medically unexplained', which we will call functional motor and …

Computational theories of brain function have become very influential in neuroscience. They
have facilitated the growth of formal approaches to disease, particularly in psychiatric …

In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in theoretical neuroscience in which the
brain—as a passive processor of sensory information—is now considered an active organ of …

This paper considers psychotic symptoms in terms of false inferences or beliefs. It is based
on the notion that the brain is an inference machine that actively constructs hypotheses to …

Emotional awareness (EA) is recognized as clinically relevant to the vulnerability to, and
maintenance of, psychiatric disorders. However, the neurocomputational processes that …

The neurobiological understanding of mood, and by extension mood disorders, remains
elusive despite decades of research implicating several neuromodulator systems. This …

The concept of the brain as a prediction machine has enjoyed a resurgence in the context of
the Bayesian brain and predictive coding approaches within cognitive science. To date, this …

This article outlines how a core concept from theories of homeostasis and cybernetics, the
inference-control loop, may be used to guide differential diagnosis in computational …

Active inference provides a simple and neurobiologically plausible account of how action
and perception are coupled in producing (Bayes) optimal behaviour. This can be seen most …

This paper offers a formal account of emotional inference and stress-related behaviour,
using the notion of active inference. We formulate responses to stressful scenarios in terms …