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This contribution deals with a model of brain electric activity, designed to explain the occurrence of epileptic phenomena. The macroscopic features of these latter seem to be a consequence of a sort of global synchronization of neural activity, due to the presence of long-range correlations between neural outputs, in some way analogous to the ones associated to critical points of second-order phase transitions. As is well known, it is very difficult to build models of biological systems exhibiting such correlations, owing to the fact that biological systems are far more complex than simple physical systems which are the subject of the theory of phase transitions.
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Bandinelli, P.L., Palma, C., Penna, M.P., Pessa, E., Petroni, R. (2002). A Systemic Approach to the Modelling of Epileptic Phenomena. In: Minati, G., Pessa, E. (eds) Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0753-6_29
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