Epilepsy as a Dynamic Complex System

Authors

  • Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros IPN
  • Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla IPN
  • Teresa Contreras-Troya IPN

Keywords:

complexity, complex systems, epilepsy, fractal analysis

Abstract

One of the most important properties in the systems is complexity. When a great level of complexity exists in a system, it is considered as a complex system. The complex systems can be soft systems and hard systems. In hard systems when their elements are interrelated in a non-linear way, they are considered as complex systems, that is to say, complex systems are those that contain a great number of elements interacting in a non-linear way. To try to understand the behavior of this type of systems diverse mathematical tools have been developed. A new scientific discipline with great impact in the analysis of the complex systems has been developed in recent years; we refer to the fractal analysis. This article discusses epilepsy as a complex dynamic system. In this work, epilepsy is defined and its causes are mentioned. The problems epilepsy causes are set too. Some works in fractal framework have been written before, and they are mentioned as examples. This work has been written in order to put the basis for analyzing, characterizing and modeling epilepsy under a fractal theory framework.

Author Biographies

Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, IPN

Professor and Researcher of Instituto Politécnico Nacional / México.

Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, IPN

Professor and Researcher of Instituto Politécnico Nacional / México.

Teresa Contreras-Troya, IPN

Student of Master in Science of Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Published

2006-06-25

How to Cite

Morales-Matamoros, O., Tejeida-Padilla, R., & Contreras-Troya, T. (2006). Epilepsy as a Dynamic Complex System. Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2006, Sonoma, CA, USA. Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings50th/article/view/328

Issue

Section

Medical & Health Systems