title: Controlling chaos in the brain.
abstract: In a spontaneously bursting neuronal network in vitro, chaos can be demonstrated by the presence of unstable fixed-point behaviour. Chaos control techniques can increase the periodicity of such neuronal population bursting behaviour. Periodic pacing is also effective in entraining such systems, although in a qualitatively different fashion. Using a strategy of anticontrol such systems can be made less periodic. These techniques may be applicable to in vivo epileptic foci.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Schiff
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jerger
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Duong
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Spano
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Ditto
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010507:Periodicity; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley