Temporal Disorder in Human Oscillatory Systems

Temporal Disorder-Introductory Remarks By the Editors.- I Theoretical Concepts.- Coupled Oscillators in Health and Disease.- Periodic Signaling and Receptor Desensitization: From cAMP Oscillations in Dictyostelium Cells to Pulsatile Patterns of Hormone Secretion.- Oscillations and the Regulation of Spatial Order in Developing Systems.- Mixed Feedback: A Paradigm for Regular and Irregular Oscillations.- II Neural and Neuromotor Systems.- Strange Attractors in the Human Cortex.- Analysis of the Human Electroencephalogram with Methods from Nonlinear Dynamics.- Studying Temporal Order in Human CNS by Means of “Running” Frequency and Coherence Analysis.- Central Rhythmicities in Motor Control and Its Perturbances.- Neurological Oscillations: Formulation of Mathematical Control Models and Applications to Clinical Syndromes.- Quantitative Theory of Changes in Oscillatory Hand Movements— Application of Methods of Synergetics.- Investigation of Agonistic/Antagonistic Movement in Parkinson’s Disease from an Ergodic Point of View.- III Heart and Respiration.- Nonlinear Dynamics, Fractals, Cardiac Physiology and Sudden Death.- Afterpotentials and Pacemaker Oscillations in an Ionic Model of Cardiac Purkinje Fibres.- Causes of Propagation Failure in Excitable Media.- Ultradian Oscillations in Human Blood Pressure: Effects of Age.- New Aspects of the Dynamics of Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Coordination in the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems.- IV Circadian Clocks.- The Autonomous Time Structure and Its Reactive Modifications in the Human Organism.- Bright Light in Work-Sleep Schedules for Shift Workers: Application of Circadian Rhythm Principles.- Disturbances of the Circadian System Due to Masking Effects.- Simulation of the Circadian Response to Time Zone Transitions by a Van der Pol Oscillator.- Circadian Rhythms and Depression.- Lithium Effects on Circadian Rhythms.- Treatment of Chronobiologic Sleep and Mood Disorders with Light: Theory and Practice.- Free-Running Melatonin Rhythms in Blind People: Phase Shifts with Melatonin and Triazolam Administration.- Effects of Pacemaker Lesions on the Temporal Organization in Mammals.- Perturbations of Cellular Circadian Rhythms by Light and Temperature.- V Ovarian Cycles.- Temporal Order and Disorder in a Model That Regulates Ovulation Number.- Index of Contributors.