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Dynamics of Disease States: Overview

Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience

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Dynamical diseases; Periodic diseases

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Computational neuroscience provides insights into the mechanisms that underlie dynamic diseases of the nervous system. Neuro-computationally inspired therapeutic devices that replace functions lost due to disease offer tangible hope to many for a better life.

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The evolution of an illness is one of the clues that a physician uses to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment strategy for diseases that affect the nervous system. Is the onset of the illness acute or subacute? Is the clinical course self-limited, relapsing-remitting, cyclic, chronic, and progressive? The impetus for studying disease dynamics comes from the mathematics and physics communities: their long experience has shown that insights into mechanism often derive from examining how dynamics change. Consequently the time evolution of a disease is modeled using differential equations, and disease processes are described in terms of the stability and...

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    John Milton

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    Ranu Jung

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Milton, J. (2020). Dynamics of Disease States: Overview. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_781-3

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    Dynamics of Disease States: Overview
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_781-4

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    Dynamics of Disease States: Overview
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