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Deterministic nonlinear chaos in brain function and borderline psychopathological phenomena.

N Pediaditakis
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There exists a fundamental overall property of the brain which monitors, modulates, and ensures a smoothness of function and which further determines elegance and grace in functioning. This property also imparts a quality of, or a sense of proportion among all other faculties of the brain. It is postulated in this paper that such a property/function, up to now almost taken for granted, is maintained/exercised by a nonlinear deterministic chaotic mode of brain function. If this is the case, borderline psychopathological phenomena, when they flare up, can be explained as resulting from sudden reduction of such a deterministic chaotic mode and the emergence of a pathological order, as the system becomes an oscillating one.

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N Pediaditakis. 1992. Deterministic nonlinear chaos in brain function and borderline psychopathological phenomena.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9877(92)90143-z

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