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Nonlinear Measures and Dynamics in Psychophysiology of Consciousness

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According to recent findings nonlinear dynamic processes related to neural chaos and complexity likely play a crucial role in neural synchronization of distributed neural activities that enable information integration and conscious experience. Disturbances in these interactions produce patterns of temporal and spatial disorganization with decreased or increased functional connectivity and complexity that underlie specific changes of perceptual and cognitive states. These perceptual and cognitive changes may be characterized by neural chaos with significantly increased brain sensitivity that may underlie sensitization and kindling, and cognitive hypersensitivity in some mental disorders. Together these findings suggest that processes related to more irregular neural states with higher complexity that may lead to neural chaos, negatively affect information integration and processing in the brain, and may influence disintegrated conscious experience.

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  1. 1st Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and UHSL, Center for Neuropsychiatric Research of Traumatic Stress, Charles University, Prague, Ke Karlovu 11, 128 00, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Bob

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  2. Center for Neuropsych Research of Traumatic Stress, Charles University Department of Psychiatry, Prague, Czech Republic

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  3. Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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Bob, P. (2014). Nonlinear Measures and Dynamics in Psychophysiology of Consciousness. In: Kumari, V., Bob, P., Boutros, N. (eds) Electrophysiology and Psychophysiology in Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2014_321

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