The brain: a dynamic system tending toward homeostasis.
This paper offers a perspective for understanding the brain as a dynamic system, continually compensating for changing events in its environment. In particular, it presents some of the neurophysiological responses to closed head injury, such as seizures and migraines, and the ability to maintain these changes in obviously advantageous noninvasive methods such as thermology and video taped biomechanics. The ultimate question asked is for a reconciliation of the paradoxical deduction that hyperactivity of the nervous system is parallel in the form of measured neural activity to no activity at all.
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Clinical Division, National Institute for Complementary Medicine, Manhasset, NY 11030.
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006706:Homeostasis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans