Fractal Response of Physiological Signals to Stress Conditions, Environmental Changes, and Neurodegenerative Diseases
May, 2005 - Scafetta, Nicola; Moon, Richard E., & West, Bruce J.
Article/Report
Bibliographic:
Complexity;Wiley InterScience, Discover Something Great
Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Vol. 12, No. 5
2007
Report URL:
http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/complexity2007.pdf
Description:
In the last two decades, the biomedical community has witnessed the development of nonlinear and fractal physiology. The application of nonlinear system theory to the analysis of biomedical time series and the development of nonlinear dynamic model have been useful in understanding how biological systems respond to peculiar altered conditions caused by internal; stress, environmental stress and disease. This article summarizes the theory, and some of the authors’ findings showing the fractal dependency on different conditions of physiological signals such as inter-breath intervals, heart inter-beat intervals, and human stride intervals.
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