Physiological Synergetics: A Holistic Concept Concerning Phase Jumps in the Behavior of Driven Nonlinear Systems

Schmid‐Schönbein, H.

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“…B. Vase-Gesicht-Bistabilität, Necker-Würfel, Schröder-Treppe) [32,33]. Sprunghaftigkeit ist ein wichtiges Merkmal biologischer Systeme und wurde schon zu Beginn des vorigen Jahrhunderts von Sir C. Sherrington in neurologischen Experimenten am Hund und in klinischen Beobachtungen am tetanischen Patienten beschrieben, weswegen er diese Reaktionsabfolge und die dabei beobachteten Muster als ¹reactions per saltimª bezeichnete [34]. Diese Hypothese ist für biologische, psychologische und soziale Systeme untersucht und mittlerweile auch für psychotherapeutische Prozesse auf der Ebene des Verhaltens und Erlebens sowie der Interaktionsdynamik eingehend analysiert worden [35 ± 37].…”

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Synergetik der hypnoiden Relaxation

Perlitz

Cotuk²,

Schiepek³

et al. 2004

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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The Autogenic Training (AT) is a well established relaxation technique and psychotherapy tool. We report the use of nonlinear routines, the Multi-scaled Time-Frequency-Distribution (mTFD) for the graphical display of vegetative rhythms, and Post-Event-Scan (PES) for the direct visual identification of coupling between physiological subsystems. Applying these methods to time series of respiration, arterial blood pressure, and cutaneous forehead blood content fluctuations in controls (n = 11) or AT-experts (ATE, n = 11) induced psychomotor drive reduction during orthostatic stress allowed the instantaneous identification of a 0.15 Hz-rhythm. This rhythm prevailed in ATE significantly longer resulting a significantly robust 1 : 1 coupling between cutaneous blood content fluctuations and respiration. Consequently, we hypothesize that the "0.15 Hz-rhythm" in the cutaneous blood content fluctuations described previously which was associated with the subjective experience of profound psychomotor relaxation reflects an order-order transition in peripheral signals of central nervous origin. Results produced with the aid of these analytic tools support the efficacy of the AT induced, synergetic relaxation response.

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Synergetik der hypnoiden Relaxation

Perlitz

Cotuk²,

Schiepek³

et al. 2004

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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“…One is led to the hypothesis that it does serve important tasks whenever the centralistic influences either loose impor tance or cannot make themselves felt. heart variability, arterial pressure, arteriolar diameter changes, laser-Doppler anemometry) [37] is obviously insufficient to detect the cooperative effects related to their well-known interdependency. Their common depen dency on the activity of the central nervous system, mechanical ventilation and gravitational and thermal in fluences can, however, be easily monitored.…”

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Synergetic Interpretation of Patterned Vasomotor Activity in Microvascuiar Perfusion: Discrete Effects of Myogenic and Neurogenic Vasoconstriction as well as Arterial and Venous Pressure Fluctuations

Schmid‐Schönbein¹,

Ziege

Grebe³

et al. 1997

Int J Microcirc

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Synergetic concepts allow to identify emergent coordination phenomena between interacting physiological systems, for example between the cutaneous microcirculation, the sympathetic nervous system and the cardiac and pulmonary systems. The temporal patterns (oscillations of various frequencies) that are found in the data obtained with laser-Doppler anemometers (LDA; e.g. Periflux 2 used in the study) can be investigated by simultaneous recording of photoplethysmographic data obtained in the identical region of interest, as well as in cutaneous regions treated with vasoparalytic procedures which permit to record the dynamics of the arterial system. These strategies were applied to studies in the cutaneous microcirculation (volar side of the index fingers) as well as to mucosal microcirculation (maxillar gingiva) in healthy subjects and in patients suffering from autonomic dysfunction (cutaneous microcirculation) or gingivitis. By this procedure, it could be corroborated that – contrary to popular notions – the temporal fluctuations in the LDA records do not necessarily reflect myogenic vasomotion, but can have multiple causes. In a confirming recent study [Schmid-Schönbein et al., J Auton Nerv Syst, 57, 136-140, 1996], we have demonstrated that the LDA fluctuations under conditions of normal ambient temperature and hand position most likely reflect neurogenic vasoconstriction. Under exceptional conditions, different patterns emerge. Prolonged exposure to ambient temperature (18°C) leads to marked vasoconstriction, with occasional vasodilator escape (‘miniature hunting reaction’). Normal subjects under gravitational load and in warm environment (28°C ambient) silence their neurogenetic vasoconstriction reactions, which allows sinusoidal vasomotion to dominate. A similar phenomenon is seen in neuropathic patients at 21-24°C (presumably due to structural defects). Fluctuations in LDA signal taken from the healthy gingiva are entrained to arterial, those taken from inflamed gingiva to respiratory activity. The theory and practice of nonlinear analysis is discussed, and data compression procedures allowing to portray characteristic temporal patterns for future diagnostic procedures are presented.

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“…It is a driven system with an internal, self-organizing dynamic like that of many complex systems and its components are not bound with any permanency; they are sometimes in and sometimes not in the organization (e.g. Bak & Chen, 1991;Kau!man, 1991;Schmid-Schonbein, 1996). Components thus might come and go and the organization itself might cease to exist or become latent and then reestablish itself (perhaps resembling in these ways some social organizations more than the organization of most compounds and molecules).…”

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The Sense of Consciousness

Tannenbaum

2001

Journal of Theoretical Biology

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Physiological Synergetics: A Holistic Concept Concerning Phase Jumps in the Behavior of Driven Nonlinear Systems

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Synergetik der hypnoiden Relaxation

Synergetik der hypnoiden Relaxation

Synergetic Interpretation of Patterned Vasomotor Activity in Microvascuiar Perfusion: Discrete Effects of Myogenic and Neurogenic Vasoconstriction as well as Arterial and Venous Pressure Fluctuations

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