Dana S.K., Roy P.K., Kurths J. (eds.) Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems: From Heart to Brain

Amsterdam: Springer, 2009. — 267 p.Nonlinear dynamics has become an important field of research in recent years in many areas of the natural sciences. In particular, it has potential applications in biology and medicine; nonlinear data analysis has helped to detect the progress of cardiac disease, physiological disorders, for example episodes of epilepsy, and others. This book focuses on the current trends of research concerning the prediction of sudden cardiac death and the onset of epileptic seizures, using the nonlinear analysis based on ECG and EEG data. Topics covered include the analysis of cardiac models and neural models. The book is a collection of recent research papers by leading physicists, mathematicians, cardiologists and neurobiologists who are actively involved in using the concepts of nonlinear dynamics to explore the functional behaviours of heart and brain under normal and pathological conditions. This collection is intended for students in physics, mathematics and medical sciences, and researchers in interdisciplinary areas of physics and biology.A Unified Approach to Attractor Reconstruction
Multifractal Analysis of Physiological Data: A Non-Subjective Approach
Direction of Information Flow Between Heart Rate, Blood Pressure and BreathingThe Mathematical Modelling of Inhomogeneities in Ventricular Tissue
Controlling Spiral Turbulence in Simulated Cardiac Tissue by Low-Amplitude Traveling Wave Stimulation
Suppression of Turbulent Dynamics in Models of Cardiac Tissue by Weak Local Excitations
Synchronization Phenomena in Networks of Oscillatory and Excitable Luo-Rudy Cells
Nonlinear Oscillations in the Conduction System of the Heart – A ModelStatistical physics of human heart rate in health and disease
Cardiovascular Dynamics Following Open Heart Surgery: Early Impairment and Potential for Recovery
Application of Empirical Mode Decomposition to Cardiorespiratory SynchronizationBrain Dynamics and Modeling in Epilepsy: Prediction and Control Studies
An Expressive Body Language Underlies Drosophila Courtship Behavior
Speech Rhythms in Children Learning Two Languages
The Role of Dynamical Instabilities and Fluctuations in Hearing
Electrical Noise in Cells, Membranes and Neurons