title: Deterministic nonlinear chaos in brain function and borderline psychopathological phenomena.
abstract: 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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authors.lastname: Pediaditakis
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011897:Random Allocation; D013269:Stochastic Processes