title: Irreversible human brain.
abstract: The recent developments in thermodynamic analysis of irreversibility for open systems represent an important result useful in the study of brain, both in relation to its neurobiology and to its diseases. In this paper the extrema entropy generation principle is suggested as a new powerful approach to the study of brain.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento Energia, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy. umberto.lucia@polito.it
authors.forename: Umberto
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Lucia
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001923:Brain Chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D019277:Entropy; D006706:Homeostasis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013816:Thermodynamics